Prompt Essay 4 : Considering Delivery and Style

Written by Seungyeon Lee

Trade Journal: Women Engineers: Where are the role models?(2007)

Newspaper article: Meet the Next Generation of Women Engineers(2016)

Scholarly article: Women Engineers: Factors and Obstacles Related to the Pursuit of a Degree in Engineering(2008)

Trade journal

Author: Wilson, Richard

Audience: Women in engineers or who are interested who are reluctant to enter to the engineering fields.

Style/Language: Uses professionally looking terms, such as IET, CEO, ISLI.

Publication: Electronics Weekly

Appearance/Others: The letters are small, well organized with the picture. It looks like article in the newspaper. It is written www.youngwomanengineer.org on the bottom of the article.

Newspaper article

Author: Jolin, Lucy

Audience: UK engineers who are concerning why there is lowest percentage of women engineers in UK or someone who is interested in being an engineer in UK.

Style/Language: Uses a lot of direct quotation

Publication: The Guardian

Appearance/Others: The content is mostly all interview based. Allison Dickinson interviewed some women in engineers and put the picture of themselves. It is organized with a bold titles. The writer and the interviewer are different.

Scholarly article

Author: Wentling, Rose Mary and Camacho, Cristina (Volume 14, Issue 1)

Audience: Women in engineering who thinks there still exists a barrier that hinders them to choose their career field to engineering.

Appearance/Others: It has 36 pages about this topic. Is it a research showing the barrier that hinders women from choosing their career field to engineering. 

I would trust more on the scholarly articles because it is based on the research. It may be one sided since they decided the topic and might have drawn the conclusion in advance. However, the fact that there still is a hindrance towards women to choose their career as engineering is shown by their research. Also, whereas trade newspaper and newspaper article were just showing what they hear from others, scholarly article seemed to be more showing evidence and supporting ideas to claim their thesis, which makes it more reliable.