“Specific Page Title or Article Title” Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?” | Purposeful, Targeted Genetic Engineering in Immune System Evolution |
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV | James A. Shapiro |
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) Ex: CBC News | Huffington Post |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC | HuffingtonPost |
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010 | 2/6/2012 |
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012 | 2/8/2012 |
<URL address> (ALL of it) |
FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV). |
Cell engineering, " illustrates how an evolutionary process works within the human body." |
Scientists believe they have, "produced a system that engineers DNA with a specific purpose." |
Shapiro explains the exact method of inserting DNA by saying, "Precise targeting of DNA cutting to variable region-coding segments allows the basic antibody structure to stay the same." |
Genetic engineering in humans is, "targeted changes to cellular DNA." |
One of the biggest questions for genetic engineers is, "How do cells with finite DNA, and finite coding capacity, produce a virtually infinite variety of antibodies?" |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
The main idea of this article is how genetic engineering can affect the immune system in a positive way. This site only talks about the advantages and none of the disadvantages of genetic engineering. This site focuses mainly on how advances in technology and the understanding of DNA can help humans artificially strengthen the immune system
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
The author is James Shapiro. He is a professor at the University of Chicago in micro biology. He seems very qualified to write about this topic.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
The author probably gained more recognition in his specific field for writing this article.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
There is clearly a bias because the author only talks about the advantages. The article is supposed to be more informative than opinioned
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author does not cite any references which only slightly weakens his argument. He is a very credible source and his article is more argumentative.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I will use this source as a very credible source because it was written by a professor and on the Huffington Post
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