The Informative Review Reflection Assignment

For this assignment, my job was to write an informative review paper. An informative review paper is a research paper that required me to write about the topic of cloning for a secondary audience. My purpose for writing this paper was to inform readers about cloning without expressing a stance relating to the topic. In order to make my science based paper easier for my audience to understand I used adaptive measures like including images/ diagrams and definitions. The potential audience impacts writing for the sciences because you have to consider how much the audience knows when you write you write an informative review paper. I responded to the audience by addressing their concerns and giving them the scientific argument which serve as a rebuttal to their concerns. My main goal with the opening paragraph was to use intriguing vocabulary to capture the audience’s attention to the topic. The motivation of my paper was to encourage readers to educate themselves on the topic of cloning before having a bias opinion.

I chose to put that diagram to help readers better understand the cloning process of fusion. The strategy I used was with every concern I attempted to clear it up to demonstrate how people should become more aware. The collaborative and social aspects of this writing assignment helped by allowing me to work with the mind of others to really breakdown the topic when in group discussions in class. The peer review helped me clean up my idea, make my points clear and make sure it was easy to understand. I used answers of questions from blackboard assignments in my background information. I chose to use the youtube video about Dolly the sheep because I feel that the video helped to simplify the process used to clone Dolly the sheep and the video also addressed the concerns. When reading the articles, I deciphered and comprehended the dense language in the articles by attempting to put definitions in my own words and by annotating the articles.

Evidence from my paper:

“The defense for this would be that cloning was not only about creating new life but to also help save lives. By creating cloned embryos would mean that new medical treatments could be developed and  “clones could be created as a compatible source of protein, cells, tissue or organs . . . in a few cases using in vitro fertilization to identify compatible embryos (‘saviour siblings’).5 Cloning would ensure the best possible genetic tissue match for donation, though it would not be useful in treating genetic conditions such as thalassaemia”. (Savulescu 2005, p 19)”

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