Prompted post #4: Professional vs non- professional

There are some vast differences in the audience of a professional article and a non professional article. In my search I found two articles both written by people with PhD's but the difference lies in where they posted their articles. One of them is posted on a medical journal site called JAMA, which stands for the Journal of the American Medical Association. Anyone can find this website so the audience here is pretty broad, but really only includes educated people. A common civilian probably would not be reading an article about ethical guidelines that a doctor should follow. Although this article is definitely easier to find online i believe that  it is still a pretty professional article. It touches on issues concerning the origin of medical practice and also the ways that is should be practiced now. The language in this first article is relatively simple to read, the writting is not written in a way that makes it overly complex and if you were to come across it, you might be able to read it rather effortlessly. The article itself is pretty lengthy but it is laid out nicely and the paragraphs run smoothly. This is is why I am labeling this as a non professional article even though it is on a medical site and written by a doctor it still seems like the point of this paper is to inform the general public about medical practices.

The other article I am comparing this too was actually something from my biology class. IN class we had to look over a medical journal entry about prions, and it was really complex. It was written in a Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery article, so this tells me that the audience was for people performing surgeries. The entire entry is really complex and half the words are too difficult to even pronounce correctly. The papers main focus is to provide insight about M232R prion disorders, and the causes and effects of it. There are pictures of the brain throughout the article and different x- rays that were taken during the case. It is talking about an actual surgery that took place on a women from Japan, which means that only doctors are really looking at this paper. (And lost kids in biology classes). Based on the language and what the paper talks about it is easy to see that this one is a lot more complex and therefor more professional in my opinion. It is explaining a surgery so that other doctors can know how to approach a rare disease like any type of prion malfunctioning. SO by looking at the language and the point of writing you can see that these are both scholarly articles but one is far more professional than the other. 

Article 1

Article 2

(If the second link doesn't work its because it goes to d2l)