Hurd 1 Zachary Hurd English 106 Ms. Parsons 26 November, 2013 Academic Discourse Community: Part 2 A.

Within the Life Sciences Library, located in LILY Hall of Life Sciences, there are many books

stacked against the walls of the room. These books mostly consist of encyclopedias, dictionaries, abstracts, indexes, handbooks, and bibliographies. After picking up a few books off the wall, I can see that most of the larger books with several editions were written collaboratively. The books with about one edition, such as some encyclopedias and informative texts, were written individually. Some handbooks include a cover page, a preface to a separate edition, acknowledgements, a section on how to use the book, and an introduction before they begin their book. Other books, such as some dictionaries, only include a page of acknowledgements and an introduction page before they begin defining words. The articles will usually begin with an abstract and end with a summary. The most widely used citation and formatting style for the publications I found was MLA although some handbooks used APA format for their citations as well. The writing style for most of the publications is impersonal and involves the use of technical detail as they are very informative texts, using data, charts, and graphs to show their work. This writing style fits the audience well, considering that these texts would be used to find data, observations, and theories based on worldly research about agriculture and environment. This is common in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering field, as they depend on research to improve upon existing projects and procedures.

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Yin, Li and Dongjian, He. Design and Implementation of Traceability Information System for

Agriculture Product Quality. Advanced Computer Control (ICACC), 2010 2nd International Conference. (4): 424-426.

Hurd 2 The two articles that I have chosen to analyze are Design and Implementation of Traceability Information System for Agriculture Product Quality by Li Yin and He Dongjian, and The Virtual Plant: A New Tool for the Study and Management of Plant Diseases by Wilson, P.A. and Chakrabrty, S. The first article, Design and Implementation of Traceability Information System for Agriculture Product Quality, begins by stating that, tremendous changes have taken place in consumers demand of taking food (Yin & Dongjian 424). According to John Swales first move, this is claiming centrality by reporting significance in consumer demands (Swales 7). Next, the article warns that increasing Per capita income is causing, growing concerns about quality and safety of agriculture products (Yin & Dongjian 424). By bringing up the issue that more people are becoming concerned with product quality and safety, Yin and Dongjian are making topic generalizations; this is the second step in Swales first move (Swales 7). To review previous items of research, Yin and Dongjian claim that Traceability System for Safe Agriculture Product is conscious of the consumers wishes and concerns and already, clearly enhances consumers knowledge of Anti-Falsification and means of identification about products (Yin & Dongjian 424). By establishing a niche, Yin and Dongjian argue that the Traceability Information System for Agriculture Product Quality contains a space that needs to be filled with additional research. They indicate a gap by demonstrating, at present, there are some problems in existing traceability systems for safe agriculture product: query results are too simple, and user problems cant be solved timeliest (Yin & Dongjian 424). Finally, Yin and Dongjian occupy the niche by outlining the purpose of the article. They indicate that the quickest solution to the users problems would be to use Tomcat and Mysql as servers which will resolve the multithread problems (Yin & Dongjian 424). Therefore, they are arguing that the use of Tomcat and Mysql will resolve the consumers concerns of food safety and quality.

Hurd 3 Wilson, P.A. and Chakrabrty, S. The Virtual Plant: a New Tool for the Study and Management of Plant Diseases. Crop Protection, 2005, 17(3): 202-204. The second article that I found within the first articles reference page, The Virtual Plant: A New Tool for the Study and Management of Plant Diseases, examines the use of computer software to model the three-dimensional growth of plants and plant architecture. Wilson and Chakrabrty begin by reviewing previous research and informing, There is ample evidence that physical, chemical and biotic factors influence plant architecture (Wilson & Chakrabrty 231). Next, they describe how plant architecture affects insect species. They establish a niche by indicating a gap and argue, To our knowledge, relationships between pathogen diversity and plant architecture have not been studied in any detail and a cursory examination of a host-pathogen index suggests a similar relationship between plant architecture and species diversity of fungi (Wilson & Chakrabrty 231). Wilson and Chakrabrty conclude the introduction by occupying the niche they introduced. They outline their purpose by claiming, The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, to introduce the virtual plant technology to plant protection professionals and secondly, to demonstrate using virtual plants and plant architectural changes in response to infection by plant pathogens (Wilson & Chakrabrty 232). Therefore, they are arguing that the results will improve plant life and architecture by exhibiting the use of the virtual plant and methods to counter pathogen infection. By reading the second article I now better understand the application of computer software to improve plant life, in the effort to enhance agricultural methods and advance food safety and quality. These major arguments found within the first article can be backed up with the research done on virtual plants and the development of pathogen infection prevention.

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Works Cited Swales, John. Create a Research Space (CARS) Model of Research Introductions. Introduction to the Conversation. 7-8.