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Here, we were tasked with critiquing our papers and assessing how well we made them digestible for readers who may never have interacted with the science field before.

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Allison Estudillo

Professor Debra Williams

Writing for the Sciences

February 26, 2024

Critical Analysis of Informative Review

The critical analysis paper I have written on the breakthrough achievements in the chromosome research field is quite challenging to approach, especially if you do not have any prior knowledge. Most know about the number of chromosomes a person has and how important they are as they define who we are as a person in a biological aspect. However, the conversation becomes a lot more complex for a reader who has never even touched this topic before and then gets thrown into the techniques scientists use to visualize and understand the chromosomes in our cells. I believe that I had tried my best to write everything as simply as I could; however, even after everything, I believe there was much more information I could have given, there was more information that I had that could continue to drive my paper on how there indeed was a breakthrough in chromosome research. However, I believed that I had overdone my paper. As a reader myself, when coming into contact with information that is too much to handle, I become overwhelmed and end up getting lost and losing the entire premise of a story or an article. The balance between wanting to drive my point clearly and fully get everything on the paper was smudged as I realized that maybe I had overdone it and stuck with the idea to finish it whether or not I had given every last piece of detail I had gathered. However, I am not proud of that, as I now see that perhaps there were other ways I could have included evidence because, as a reader, it’s important to know every single aspect of a topic, that it’s important as a writer, I should inform the reader. There was also another area in which I believe I could have done extremely better; I would’ve given more time to simplify the words in my essay properly. Although I may know what these words truly mean because I have studied this before, not many have, and throwing words that can be complex, especially to readers, who have never read anything about this subject, could confuse them.