Week 9 Blog
Microbial Wires
The message that Charles Q. Choi sends to his readers comes across very clearly. He let’s us know that there are bacteria that can use soil as electrical grids. This means that the bacteria can use the currents in the soil to help send messages to one another by using electrons. Electrons are vital for both microbial and human life. For microbes they help them process food sources that they normally couldn't digest properly. For humans they help the microbes, them the microbes in return help the humans. It’s a process that shows a commensalism relationship. This is supported by details that are not to biased nor hard to understand. I found nothing in the text that made it hard to read or understand because everything was written in a way that is comprehensible. The details and research done about this subject were fact based and true, from my own research done after reading the article. There were no questions raised because I understood the material and also had done my own research about it. The only rhetorical concepts I can pick out are Logos, because the whole article is based on logic and hard fact! The author could have used Ethos, to help us trust what is written, like giving more examples on the situations provided. It was very objective because there was a lot of subject put in this short article and I can’t say it was unbiased because he only talked about how the microbes use soil to transmit electrons to send messages to one another. So with that it is very biased.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120608-microbes-bacteria-electricity-minerals-chemicals-swap-science/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_r1p_us_ot_w#
Cool article! What kind of messages do the bacteria send?
ReplyDeleteDennis, this is an interesting article you chose. I think you also did a very good job looking at the rhetorical strategies the author used to strengthen his argument.
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