Drew Judkins
"Yakima Herald Republic | Wandering Wolf Now Leader
of His Own Pack." Yakima Herald Republic. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan.
2015.
The article I read is called Wandering
Wolf Now Leader of His Own Pack by Jeff Barnard. Wandering wolf, OR-7, who
has been wandering by the Rogue River in Oregon, is now officially the leader
of his own pack. “State and federal wildlife agencies said Wednesday they have
designated OR-7, his mate and their pups the Rogue Pack”. In 2011 OR-7 left his
pack in northeastern Oregon in search of a mate. After travelling thousands of miles
alone he found his mate last winter by the Rogue River-Siskiyou national
forest. OR-7’s pack is the first in western Oregon and only the ninth in the
state from when wolves swam the Snake River in the 1990s. OR-7 has a GPS collar
on him that tracks his moves. Biologists hope to replace the collar in the
spring, but all attempts to trap OR-7, his mate, or one of the pups have failed
so far.
This
article is important to society because wolves are on the Endangered Species
List. Or-7 and his pack will be tracked by biologist and be safe and able to
breed and stay as a pack for a long time. This is good because wolves are
amazing animals that will be missed if they go extinct.
The author
did a good job with writing this article. He presented facts about OR-7 and his
pack without it feeling like it was just facts. He also did a good job
explaining what they wanted to do with OR-7, and the Rogue Pack in the future. To
improve this article I think the author should provide more background information
on OR-7 because at some points such as “The GPS collar that tracked his travels
is still working” the author never explains that they put a tracker on him or
when they did this.
I read Drew’s review of the article “Wandering Wolf Now Leader of His Own Pack”. There were many good aspects to Drew’s article review, but there were three things that really stood out to me in particular. The first thing that stood out to me was the topic that Drew chose. I thought that it was interesting to learn about wolves; a topic that is not usually featured in news articles. I thought that it was also interesting that his review was on the shorter side, which made the review easy to understand. I thought another aspect that made it interesting to read was the fact that it was a follow up to a previous article. We now know what happened to the wolf that was featured in other new articles, and I think that it was interesting to read about a topic with some closure. Although there were many positive aspects, there were a couple of things that Drew could have improved upon. I think that the review could have been spaced better. This would make the review easier to understand, if it were separated into three separate paragraphs. Another thing that could have been improved upon is the grammar. At times, a comma was missing or a sentence was not punctuated correctly. This made some parts of the article difficult to understand. One thing that really stood out to me while reading his review was the topic. I thought that it was very interesting to learn about something that we do not usually learn about in the news.
ReplyDelete"Yakima Herald Republic | Wandering Wolf Now Leader of His Own Pack." Yakima Herald Republic. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2015.
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/yhr/thursday/2809397-8/wandering-wolf-now-leader-of-his-own-pack
I read Drew Judkin’s review of “Yakima Herald Republic | Wandering Wolf Now Leader of His Own Pack." By Jeff Barnard. Something Drew did well was incorporating a quote from the text into his writing in the first paragraph. This made his argument stronger because he had a professional backing him up. Another thing Drew succeeded in was writing a thorough critique to the author’s article, and really enhanced it by quoting the author’s words and saying what they could’ve expanded on. A final aspect of Drew’s writing that stood out was there were no grammatical mistakes, which made his writing very easy to read.
ReplyDeleteSomething Drew could’ve done to make his writing stronger would be to cite the quote he used properly. He quoted someone, but didn’t say who said it and where in the article it was from. Also, he could’ve written more about how the article is important to society, and expand on how the Or-7 will not go extinct.
Overall, Drew’s review was well written and very informative. I learned that wolves are on the endangered species list, which I was unaware of before, and it is important that people know which animals are soon to be extinct.