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Current event 4
3-4-19
Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr
For my fourth current event, I decided to talk about the impact dietary habits have on cancers. As stated in the article "Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments" by science news, a cancer patients fiber intake could prove beneficial to there well being. The article states that a high fiber diet can slow or even reduce to growing size of the cancer. As seen with numerous skin cancer patients. The high fiber intake has also proven to be far more effective when paired with other treatments. "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets." In a more literal sense, the fiber concentration is what births the bacteria known as "Ruminococcaceae", which has proved itself beneficial to most cancer treatments. Only further proving a fiber diets effectiveness.
This recent discovery shocked the medical and scientific world world for many reasons. First of which is that, cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year. And since we do not know the cure yet, this new treatment will prove beneficial to all cancer patients. It is not only very easy to do, but it is also very cheap (relative to other cancer treatments) which is essential to its use. Although, this dietary treatment is very new and cannot be deemed beneficial to society yet.
Science news did a good job writing this article. One thing they did very well was going into great depths about the science behind the fibers effectiveness when dealing with cancer. However, they could have improved on their appeal to the reader. It became evident that there was a lack of rhetorical devices in the story, which just made it hard to read. There was no opinion or passion which made it hard to connect with.
Megan Barker 3/3/19
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was very well written. The entire review was very concise and to the point. The review met the criteria without being too lengthy or having too much information. On that note, his review was also clear and readable. It was not convoluted with facts, figures, or quotes, so it was an easy review to follow. Additionally, the review had a good connection to the real world. It was a thought out connection that even used the statistics of cancer diagnoses. By explaining that through further research, this revelation may help scientists find a cure for cancer, Chris makes an impactful real-world connection.
That being said, there are a few aspects of Chris’ review that could have been improved. For example, there were a few typos and grammatical errors in the review, such as the repeating of the word ‘world’, the wrong use of the word ‘there’, and an incomplete sentence. Though these errors did not distract from reading, they are mistakes that can be easily corrected. Also, he could have gone a bit more in depth in his first paragraph. Although I did appreciate the clarity of the review, if he were to have added a bit more detail about the research found or how the study was conducted, it would not have confused the reader. In fact, it might have added to the review’s clarity.
While reading this review, the research itself was an epiphany for me. I had no idea that fiber could help treat cancer. It is shocking that something so mundane could help treat such an insurmountable and impossible disease to cure. Although I generally do not know much about cancer treatments, I found it unexpected that fiber would be so helpful towards curing the disease.
Ava Chiang
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr
Chris’s current event review of Tina Hesman Saey’s article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” was well executed. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. For example; Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. Chris also provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis. This made his review more enjoyable.
Despite the many positive aspects of Chris’s review, there is still room for improvement. Though its a positive that his writing is concise it might be a little too straight to the point. It didn’t include as much context as I hoped it would, some helpful information would be the institution that sponsored this research or who conducted this research. Both information would’ve been helpful in providing context and made this article more credible. Chris also made small typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the coherence of his review but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery. Cancer is one of the biggest problems of the 21st century and there should be many benefits of this discovery other than being cheap and easy to do.
Chris’ review made a very good impression on me and by reading his article I realized how beneficial something ordinary like fiber could be. I knew that fiber is good for the human body but I had no idea that it can help cancer treatments, which are notorious for being harsh. Reading Chris’ review taught me to not underestimate the effect of anything, no matter how mundane it may seem.
Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
ReplyDeleteChris’s review of, “Eating a lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments,” was very intriguing. Chris answered the 3 big questions in this review which made it good. The first being the What. He explained to the reader the background and what is going on. The second is the How. He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The final is the Why. He explained why this was so vital to the development in beating cancer. He explained how eating foods with high fiber is way less expensive than other treatments that don't work as well as fiber.
There were two things though in Chris’ review that could be improved. The first of these being his first paragraph. His paragraph could have some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. The second thing Chris could improve on is some minor mistakes in writing. For example, when he gives his criticism he mentions the author as the entire website of Science News when the author of the article is Tina Saey. There were also some minor grammar mistakes.
The crazy thing about this article is the fact that eating a food with high fiber in it can help you more than treatments that have been researched for a long time. It really makes you think about all the money that is being spent on cancer research for a food to do better things for you, then heavily researched things.
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
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Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .
Griffin Patterson April 22nd 2019
ReplyDeleteBiology Current event
Saey, Tina Hesman. “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments.” Science News, 1 Mar. 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/eating-lot-fiber-could-improve-some-cancer-treatments?tgt=nr.
Chris’ review of the article “Eating a Lot of Fiber Could Improve Some Cancer Treatments” by Tina Saey was written very well. His work was concise and to the point but included many examples and quotes to back up his claims. Chris used the quote "Those who ate a high fiber diet were five times as likely to have a therapy halt the growth of or shrink the tumors as those on low diets” to provide evidence and context at the same time. This made his summary well supported but not loaded with too much unnecessary information. The second thing he did well was how .He explained how the fiber helped the cancer patients and how it was more effective. The last thing he did well was that he provided a good amount of data in his summary. For example; he used “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year” to emphasize the relevance of this article. But despite the examples and data he used, Chris made sure his work was readable and not bogged down by numbers and analysis.
Although this article was written very well there were some things chris could improve on. First of all, in his beginning paragraph he could have had some more detail as it is pretty short and could be explained better. Chris also made typos and grammatical errors that don’t affect the review in a big way but interrupts the flow. For example; he misspelled “the” as “to” in a sentence and repeated the word “world.” While I enjoyed reading Chris’ summary I wish he expanded his paragraph on the relevance of this discovery.
I overall had a lot of fun reading this article and some of the facts in here blew me away. For example, when he said “cancer is diagnosed to 164 out of 100,000 men and women each year”, this really shocked me and i realized how cancer affects the world overall. This also taught me that cancer is seriously not easy to deal with at all. .