Miami article

The article takes an interesting viewpoint on the topic of students and instant messaging. i agree with the article in that students are writing a great deal more which cannot be a bad thing, however the styles of formal writing and text messaging are completely different and might affect the level at which students write at. if students were to text message at the same level as they write formal papers then text messaging is certainly a good thing.

audience / purpose

I read an article written by a duke university student, about the engineers without borders program. The purpose of the article is similar to that of every wiki, to act as an encyclopedia article about the stated topic, although this article was written solely t o talk about the duke chapter of engineers without borders. It is written for duke university students primarily engineers. However, it does talk about the philanthropic side of the program in order to attract students interested in community service.

1939 the peak of ww2 during the battle of Britain, British intelligence received the location of a number of incoming bombers. The bombers were located and destroyed; the destruction of the bombers was celebrated, but not nearly as much as the invention of the device that provided their location. This new device was radar, and it is responsible for everything from location detection to forecasting the weather. Radar has a long history dating back before the 20th century, where physicist Heinrich Hertz began his experimentation with radio wave. It was this experimentation that laid the foundation for younger scientists to eventually develop modern day radar. It was not until the war however that radars true potential was discovered, the ability to know if enemy aircrafts were within attacking range, as well as their location. Radar changed the ways wars were fought, however, their usefulness was not exclusive to the battle field radar has had a profound effect on weather tracking, air traffic control, and police radar guns, to name a few. Peculiar how the experiments of a scientist in the 19th century could have so a profound effect on modern day society.
The history of radar began with the experiments done by Hertz, but those experiments were no where no close to the radar enjoyed by modern day society. Following hertz came a man by the name of Christian Huelsmeyer; Huelsmeyer invented a device that implemented the use of radio echoes to identify other ships. The device called the telemobiloscope was never produced out of lack of interest. This however paved the way for scientist Nikola Tesla to discover a number of principles describing the physics of radar units. The discoveries of Tesla were crucial in the development of radar, and were used by numerous scientists following Tesla. Scientist Robert Watson-Watt using the principles defined by Tesla used the radio waves produced by lightning to develop the weather tracking system. Following his invention of weather tracking Watson and his assistant Arnold Wilkins set up receiving equipment and were able to show the location of planes eight miles away. As more and more scientist with ideas similar to Watson began to experiment and develop radar governments around the world began to take an interest in the new concept of radar. It was not until however World War 2 that development was fast tracked and somewhat finalized. Before World War 2, only a handful of countries dabbled with radar. Once the war broke out all of that changed.

I. Intro
II. History
A. Inventors
• Christian Hulsmeyer
• Nikola tesla
B. Pre World War 2
• Emile Girardeau
o Invented modern day radar before the start of the war
C. World War 2
• Britian
o The first to succefully implement the radar
• Radar evolution throughout the war

III. How the radar works
A. Reflection
• Electromagnetic waves bounce off of an object then return to the host allowing the distance and a number of other factors to be calculated
• Radar absorbing materials absorb the waves so that the host does not receive a return signal
B. The physics of the radar
a. this is the formula for the power of a radar and is used to determine the effectiveness relating to distance and other variables.
C. Interference
a. Noise
b. Clutter
c. Jamming

IV. The Doppler Radar
A. Inventor
a. Christian Doppler
B. Uses
a. Weather
b. Air traffic control
C. How it works
D. The Doppler effect
a. Explains why the frequency of something changes as an observor’s distance changes.

V. Uses of radar
a. Weather
b. Air traffic control
c. Military uses
d. Space instruments
e. Police uses
i. Radar gun

VI. The effect of the radar
a. The military
i. World war 2
ii. Airplane defense
iii. Submarine
b. Daily life
i. Police and radar guns
ii. Air traffic control
iii. Weather

VII. Conclusion

Here are some of the points I found to be most important. The first one being keeping in mind the purpose of the paper. This is huge for me as I often do not stick to one theme throughout the paper.
The second is discovering who the audience is and how to write to them. Doing this keeps you from writing papers not suited for a certain audience.
Finally the third point is planning how to write the paper, not necessarily writing an outline but more getting your thoughts organized. This is very helpful when coming up with a thesis.

I interviewed Emily Sutherland, who is doing her paper on the Bodies exhibit. This exhibit is currently traveling the world showing bodies that have been dissected and are in motion. In her paper she plans to talk about the history of the Bodies exhibit, and the history of the bodies themselves. She also wants to cover how the bodies are maintained and plasticized. This is the process in which they inject plastic into the cells so the bodies remain rigid during the exhibit. Another topic she plans to cover, she ran across during her research, and that is that it is rumored that there is a possibility that some of the cadavers may have been former prisoners, who were imprisoned only so that their bodies could be used in the exhibit. All in all it sounds like she has a very interesting topic that should turn into a neat paper.