Cloning 2

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words, summarize difficult concepts, and often utilize attractive visual aids. Authors strive to communicate issues to audiences of varying levels of education. In order to accomplish this effectively, authors adapt their work in a format that expresses their concepts to audiences in pragmatic fashion. However, a disadvantage is that these adaptations can lead to misinterpretations of information.
Attached is a newspaper article I obtained through the web but was printed in the "Discoveries" section of The Dallas Morning News on September 14, 1998. It was written by Karin Jegalian and it focuses on cloning and its biological, practical, and ethical issues. Jegalian's primary aim is to highlight specific successful cloning projects and speculate about how those developments might affect not only the science community, but society as a whole. In order to convey this information, Jegalian uses articles from the journals Nature and Natural Medicine as the foundations for her ...

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subjects. The test subjects for the experiment were rabbits with normal cardiac function. Jegalian describes the work of the researchers using simple terms. For instance, she writes that "The biologists mimicked heart disease by freezing heart tissue enough to cause damage." Words such as "freezing" and "heart tissue" are substituted for words like "discrete cryoinjury" and "myocardium" respectively. Further on in her article, Jegalian explains that the researchers inject muscle cells into the damaged parts of the rabbits' hearts, guessing that the muscle cells will replace the damaged parts of the heart and act like cardiac cells. To get a stronger, more accurate perspective on the ...

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