Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School
SBI 4U
Part 1 McKiney ML: This article is a secondary resource. This is because the author, McKiney ML, uses information from 105 studies (other primary resources), that are not his own, to expand upon his own study regarding the effects of urbanization on species richness and their taxonomic group. In other words, Instead of gatheri
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Part 1 McKiney ML: This article is a secondary resource. This is because the author, McKiney ML, uses information from 105 studies (other primary resources), that are not his own, to expand upon his own study regarding the effects of urbanization on species richness and their taxonomic group. In other words, Instead of gathering new information, the author examined and compiled data from earlier research that had already been published. Thus, this article is considered to be a secondary source as the author is discussing experiments and investigations conducted by someone else to support their own claim. Reasco J: This article is a secondary source. This is because the author decides to use information evaluated from another author (Gilbert Norton, et al) that studied how corridors have become very effective in increasing “their inner-patch movement” to further their own idea of exploring the new insights of corridor effectiveness. To ascertain if the study from the previous ten years supports the usefulness of corridors and what new insights may be acquired, the author did a meta-analysis on studies looking into their impacts. The key takeaway from the author's argument is that biodiversity conservation is benefitted by efforts made in constructing and maintaining corridors, and he developed this takeaway by using information from other primary resources, thereby making this article a secondary resource. Tewksbury et al: This article is a primary resource. This is because the author, Tewksbury (and others), did a meta-analysis to thoroughly investigate how corridors affect the interactions between plants, animals, and their environments in fragmented landscapes. They key reason as to why this is a primary resource and not a secondary or tertiary resource is because the authors of this article conducting and synthesized their own research and results without using information from other secondary or tertiary resources; they support their own claim with self-synthesized research and findings, leading them to the claim that, especially in fragmented environments, corridors may be a useful strategy for ecosystem restoration and protection. Thus, this article is a primary resource. Part 2 i. The introduction paragraph was extremely difficult for me to read. The reason being is because I did not understand most of the advanced vocabulary the author uses in the paragraph, leaving me extremely confused. ii. As I delved into the article, I found myself grappling with the author's word choices. The first few sentences alone prompted me to look up more than 90% of the words used. This forced me to read the paragraph multiple times and expand upon my own vocabulary to understand
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