Comparative Commentary on two Texts about Science

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Science and especially physics are very important not only for clever professors, but also for regular people in their day to day life. This is the main idea behind the two texts of section B. The way this idea is blended into the two articles is different though. Text 2a is a section from an essay which tries to answer the question what people should know about science and why. Text 2b comes from an article in the magazine Physics Today and is about the World Year of Physics which is meant to spread physical awareness amongst a wider audience.

Both texts are informative, but the audiences the authors want to reach are different. The writer of text 2a deosn’t necessarily want to reach a big audience. This shows in the structuree of the text. Immediately in the first paragraph there are some rather complex sentences. Especially the second one lengthy and complicated. The writer of text 2b does want to reach a big audience as that is the goal of the campaign written about in the text. This article concequently starts of completely different. The first four sentences are only about five words in lengt. This way of starting an article usually attracks more readers than when one starts with complicated sentence structures. Also, the paragraphs in text 2a tend to be slightly longer than those of text 2b indicating a more difficult and thus less accesible text.

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As both of the texts globally deal with the same subject the type of lexicon used is similar in some aspects. Logically, words such as science and physics are regularly used in both texts. Still, the tone in the two texts is quite different. Text 2b aspires to reach a big audience, so the tone in the text is very open. This, as has been mentioned in the previous paragraph, is partly caused by the structure, but the type of words used also contributes. In general, the words are quite simple and actual difficult words can’t be found. Also, ...

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