EARTHQUAKE! article...

The article titled “Are You "Ready To Ride It Out?" An Earthquake, That Is: Simple Preparative Steps Can Make Earthquakes Less Disastrous and Less Traumatic for Children” is the one I have chosen to write about. This particular article talks about preparation mainly as families and communities to be ready for an earthquake. It asks the reader questions about what they know about the local school’s earthquake preparedness plans. Next it informs us of what we can do to help be ready and prepared to help make sure we and our children are safe.

I’ve always been interested by natural disasters and when we were assigned to read about the environment I decided that this topic would probably best keep my attention and interest. I chose this article because it is a little less lengthy than most of the other ones that came up and it also does a good job at using most forms of rhetoric (pathos, kronos, ethos). The voice it uses is also very easy to understand. It’s written to the people for the use of the people, unlike other articles I found that were meant to be read mainly by scientists and experts.

In the library I was looking at articles that it would find and bring up, but most of them just weren’t what I was searching for. I decided to refer back to my own knowledge of research instead of my newly developed spiffy library skills and use Google to search for an article. After typing in the search in Google I was able to find this article within the first two pages of articles it brought up. So I went to Google, typed “earthquake preparedness editorial” in the search box, clicked on advanced search, browsed through the links it brought up, went to the second page and found this article.

While we were at the library I had a tendency to get frustrated with the computer and the search engines that we were using. I’m just not use to using those types of search engines. Although the library class time was useful in learning how to use those tools and I now could do it if I had to, I would still rather use other engines such as Google first, which is what I did. It was useful and good to get the information and knowledge that we did in the library it’s just not my style.