Prompt #4: Considering Delivery and Style

I have found a scholarly article and a blog post about blood types and I will be comparing them. The source of the information you find online can be a huge factor in whether an article is trustworthy or not.

The first article I found was a blog post titled "Blood Types". It explains what blood types are used for and what types there are. It also presents a video and some pictures to help explain the concept of blood types. This information was delivered in a way that was easy to understand because there were bullet points of information and pictures that were appealing to to the eye.

The second article I found was a scholarly article called "The Nature of the Principal Type 1 Interferon-Producing Cells in Human Blood". This article was very detailed and used a lot of scientific words. It gave more specific information about blood types and the kinds of sicknesses that can be associated with them. This article was also an article that explained research of a certain hypothesis rather than just displaying information about blood types.

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These two articles are both helpful in discovering information about blood types, but which one can be trusted?

The answer is the scholarly article. The scholarly article is from a more trusted source because the source is an official science journal and the people who wrote it are scientists or researchers that found this information on their own. The blog post cannot be 100 percent trusted because they took that information from somewhere else and they could've changed it however they wanted to. They also did not cite where any of their information came from, so they could've just made the whole thing up. 

It is important to be aware of what kind of articles and sources you are using when researching information, especially for school-related projects. If these sources aren't reliable or trustworthy, they won't be useful to you at all.

Siegal, Frederick P., Norimitsu Kadowaki, Michael Shodell, Patricia A. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Kokila Shah, Stephen Ho, Svetlana Antonenko, and Yong-Jun Liu. "The Nature of the Principal Type 1 Interferon-Producing Cells in Human Blood." The Nature of the Principal Type 1 Interferon-Producing Cells in Human Blood. Sciencemag.org, 11 June 1999. Web. 21 Feb. 2016. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/284/5421/1835

Patton, Kevin. "The A&P Student." : Blood Types. N.p., 20 Jan. 2015. Web. 21 Feb.        2016. http://theapstudent.blogspot.com/2015/01/blood-types.html