{"id":20,"date":"2020-11-09T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/?p=20"},"modified":"2020-11-09T00:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T00:35:35","slug":"writing-exercise-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/2020\/11\/09\/writing-exercise-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercise #8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am surprised as to how much research I have been doing for these writing exercises. The one this week, writing exercise 8 I believe, I basically wrote in the style of the summary article except without the 250-word constraint. Both the summary articles and the writing exercises have helped me understand how to read a research article in a more developed way and I have been able to break down an article into its main comprising parts faster and faster. My favorite subject that I have learned so far would probably be how an infant is influenced by the mother\u2019s microbiome and the environmental factors after birth. Going in, I had a general idea that environment influenced things like allergies but the extent to which infants are affected is way more than I anticipated. I thought it was really interesting that the <strong>mother\u2019s womb<\/strong> and the nutrients absorbed in development have such a huge influence on the initial microbiome of the infant. I also had not considered the large difference in nutrients between breast milk and formula.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my research for this recent homework assignment, I learned that the common belief up until recently was <strong>woman\u2019s wombs<\/strong> was considered sterile environments. I have no idea how a sterile environment exists\u2026 when it is in the human body? It was a one-sentence explanation on one of my citations but it was so confusing it threw me for a loop. Maybe sterile means something different than what I am imagining but why is it called sterile? Is it because it is technically like a protected area for a child to grow in with an epithelial layer? Even so, I would not consider that sterile considering there are many nutrients and commensal bacteria that work to help a child grow. It is probably just the common belief because research is historically created by white men who believed women hormones caused hysteria for a while. But why sterile\u2026 is it just they were too lazy\/scared to research beyond that and morally just said \u201ccan\u2019t broach that subject because of morals. we\u2019ll just say it is sterile\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflection: I probably focused too much on the most recent assignment but since it was what was fresh in my head, I would say that this was an appropriate topic to write about for the first writing session. I think in the second paragraph, it was much more rambly than the first paragraph. I was definitely running out of things to say for the phrase part so I suppose that makes sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am surprised as to how much research I have been doing for these writing exercises. The one this week, writing exercise 8 I believe, I basically wrote in the style of the summary article except without the 250-word constraint. Both the summary articles and the writing exercises have helped me understand how to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/slr2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}