In this article, Carl Zimmer talks about the different ways novice writers and experts writers think. First, Carl Zimmer talked about Dr. Lotze. Dr Lotze is a scientist who first came up with this experiment. He recruited 28 novice writers. Dr. Lotze gave them something to write and while they were writing, Dr. Lotze scanned their brains. He noticed that while they were writing, the visual part of their brain lighted up. He concluded that novice writers think more visually. In the other hand, Dr. Lotze recruited 20 expert writers and did the same experiment. Instead of the visual part of the brain lighting up, the speech part of the brain lighted up. He concluded that expert writers like to narrate the story while they are writing. However, the author ended the article by telling us another perspective from a psychologist. Dr. Pinker said that creativity is a hard thing to study, and that even with the most advanced machines we can miss signs of creativity.
In this article, the author starts off by getting attention of the readers. This article is a very typical type of article, it gives us the introduction, than the body, and a conclusion. This article is mostly informative, so in my opinion it wasn't very entertaining to read. However, the author does a good job communicating to the readers exactly what he is trying to say. One of the devices the author uses, is using a lot of quotes. The author uses quotes in order to tell us that this information is valid. In the end, the author however tells us about another perspective. The author did this in order to give us two different perspectives and think for ourselves to see which one we agree. Overall, the author does a good job in telling us his message, the author does not waffle and his straightforward.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/science/researching-the-brain-of-writers.html?_r=0
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