Week 2 Prompt Post: Comparing two mechanical engineer blogs

First, I apologize for the late post for my week 2 because I was sick due to this bad weather, I hate the snow lol. By reading the articles “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” and “About Engineer” I found that both article use first person to express their opinion and there are no citations for both of them.  Due to some reasons, I think that “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” is more formal and the other one is informal.

 

In the article “Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take” posted by Gears, the author did a splendid job on word choice, every words is simple because as a international student; and also, I think the author use list style to list what classes should a mechanical engineer takes and what goal should they achieve is wisely, because the list style can make people see your point clearly, and I think it is more formal.

 

In the article “About Engineer” posted by Ellen Berlinghof, the author told people why he chose mechanical engineer as his major, what classes should a mechanical engineer take, Hopkins and his experiences about engineering. The author also uses simple words to write his article which is good for me. The article is very long and contains a lot of information which I mention above. The author also inserts some hyperlinks in the article; it is more convenient for people to get to the websites which he searched for his article. He uses hyperlinks in stead of citations, so I think it is informal. But it is his blog, so I like the free style.


CITATION


1. GEARS, . "Classes Every Mechanical Engineer Should Take." Engineer Blogs!. N.p., 16 9 2011. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. <http://engineerblogs.org/2011/09/classes-every-mechanical-engineer-should-take/>. 
2.  Ellen, Berlinghof. "ABOUT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING." Mechanical Engineering. N.p., 2010. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. <http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/academics/category/mechanical-engineering/>.