Research practice

For my researched article, I chose to read “Caffeine makes for busy bees, not productive ones” by Ed Yong. This article is short but I found it to be interesting and it used enough research strategies to help me learn about this genre. I chose this article because it is from national geographic, and that magazine has built up its ethos as one that is good about the research it does and is not misleading. The title of the article also works to draw me in because the points out a connection between two things that I would not typically see together, caffeine and bumblebees. I like this article too because has the aspects of a research paper in it that would be useful to me. The beginning starts with a little background information describing the effect on caffeine on bees so that the readers can know exactly what the author means to talk about in this article. Yong also uses narrative during his paper during his paper to connect to the reader more. He talks about how he is drinking an early cup of coffee while he was writing this, and that makes the readers connect to him as a person more. It also serves a purpose to reflect how caffeine is important to humans too and it adds an aspect of caffeine that readers can compare to when deciding how caffeine effects bees rather than humans. Most importantly, Yong uses information from studies that other credible people such as scientists have taken. He uses question and answers during his essay to introduce how his resources apply to the topic of how caffeine effects honeybees, which makes the reader think more too. He ends the paper with commentary of what he has learned throughout his research, using skills such a drawing conclusions on how the bees are effected and using hard statistics to demonstrate the effect to people who need concrete results. In all I found his essay to be helpful but I think he should have put more prickles into his stories to make it longer and to help the audience understand the subject of bees more, it requires previous knowledge of bees to understand everything.  

 Yong, Ed. "Caffeine Makes For Busy Bees, Not Productive Ones." Phenomena Caffeine Makes For Busy Bees Not Productive Ones Comments. 15 Oct. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2015.