PB2B

PB2B: Examining the Rhetorical Features of Scholarly Articles

The scholarly articles  I examined were the “Impact of Global Economic Crisis on suicide” and also “Evidence for economic crisis exacerbating depression” The world economy ( global economics) is the economy of the world, considered as the international exchange of goods and services that is expressed in monetary units of account. I was interested in researching how this business aspects affect people in their daily lives. These articles that I will later discuss gives some reasoning about my research.

The first scholarly article I examined was the “Impact of Global Economic Crisis on suicide”. The 2008 economic crisis had a major impact on countries around the world. Chaos in the banking sector led to failures in stock markets, bankruptcies, house repossessions, and an increase in unemployment. The International Labour Organization estimated that the number of jobless worldwide reached about 212 million in 2009. The World Health Organization also raised concern over the crisis’ impact on global health and called for integrated actions to closely monitor and protect health, in particular among the poor and vulnerable people. The researchers collected data from around the country that showed suicide rates from before and after the economic crisis. It was estimated that in 1997, with the economic crisis in Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong 10,000 suicides occurred. Previously, researchers found that economic downturns tend to have the greatest effects on men of working age. To investigate the impact of the 2008 global economic crisis on international trends in suicide and to identify sex/age groups and countries most affected.

The second scholarly article  I examined was the “Evidence for economic crisis exacerbating depression”. Major economic crisis, especially in Hong Kong caused conflicts with a person’s mental state. Recent studies on the relationship between economic crisis and mental health are the main issues researchers are finding. Surveys that the researchers have also studied, shows that an economic crisis can build up a specific mental disorder such as depression, a leading global contributor to the burden of disease that is believed to increase in bad economic times.  Some physical health issues like obesity, heart disease, and diabetes could improve during an economic crisis because people might be forced by financial reasons to adopt a healthier lifestyle, such as by eating less meat and walking or cycling more. This shows how when the economy goes into a crisis it not only affects just the economy, but it affects those all around it and affects how they go onto their daily routines.

These researchers have studies this phenomena of how a global economy crisis can affect those who am surrounded by them. These researchers have described the concept of economy crisis in similar ways by gathering information and data by also interpreting what the statistics and graphs ultimately mean. They have described the same concept differently by going into more depth about certain products. They have the same concepts by gathering research from all around the world that backs up their idea of how people are affected from the crisis. The research methods included sampling, instruments(detects behavior), statistical analysis, and results of serves that were taking all over the world. Each scholar's argument was basically  how those affected by an economy fall with find themselves mentally and physically unstable.

These scholarly articles are a unique genre because I don't think that most people look into the aftermath of an actual economy fall. This was unique to read about it and see that it is happening all around and outside this country. Their conventions includes, formats, heading, sections, research, abstract,  backgrounds, methods, and keywords. The affordance from these scholarly articles is that it's easily accessible, anyone can read about it. The constraints are not knowing updates on the problem currently. I would describe their rhetorical feature as being easy to understand and follow. Each author's purpose is to inform people on the effects of an economy crisis and how it can lead to mental problems and sometimes suicide. Their audience are other students, scholars, professors who teach about mental health issues, economics, and business. I would characterize their writing style as easy to follow along. Each articles was structured with a brief summary before the actual content of the article, introductions, research, questions about the research and conclusions. The logic behind setting the article up this way is to give readers an easier way to retain a lot of the information that was giving on the topic. It was easier to follow from what the actual article would talk about to then the conclusions. 

The aspects of the two scholarly article that strike me as the most important was that Suicide had a low rate and is associated with the most severe forms of depression that occurred only in a small subset of depressed individuals. Learning how society's reduced tolerance of behavioral problems in a contracting economy might lead to greater use of police power in trying to get patients into hospitalization.  This was the most important and the most interesting thing to me because I never really thought about the economy this way. I usually thought it has nothing to do with us but yet after reading these scholarly articles I now realize that people are greatly affected by it.