My Interviewees As Professional Writers

This post will analyze what sort of materials my interviewees have written or constructed throughout their careers.

Professor Dean Papajohn has published a few research papers as well as a few technical project manuals. Since he has been in the field for the most part, the amount of things he has written and been published in is lower than other professors. Dr. Yao-Jan Wu has published several research papers and several journals. Many of these journals are specifically about his area of research.

Yao-Jan Wu has published many different scholarly journals including one on Traffic Volumes and one on Traffic Flow Prediction. Dean Papajohn has published papers on Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure as well as a paper on Partnerships in US Transportation. In these four instances, the author has written in a professional report style, each begins with an abstract or a thesis before diving into the many information of the paper. Although some of these were in a journal and some of these were just research papers, all of them were written in a very similar format.

Each piece is written under the context of finalizing the findings or proposing a hypothesis over a certain research topic. Both of Professor Wu's papers were written in 2015 while one of Professor Papajohn's papers was written in 2015 and the other in 2011. Otherwise all of these are research papers so they deal with one certain issue or idea. Each paper was meant to be read by those in the civil engineering field or by those who are interested in the specific topic that the paper talks about. Professor Wu has many other papers on the same topics although each has a little different spin on the topic.

The overall message of each piece is proactive and idea oriented. Each paper covers a topic and shows the pros and cons of each idea. The paper gives a distinct answer to a hypothesis which can be used by future researchers and engineers to further their own project. I decided this upon looking at each one of the abstract statements and upon reading some of the actual papers and comparing them to each other.

The purpose of each paper is to inform pure and simple. There is not any sort of entertainment value for the general reader but only simply facts and analysis of the findings. Each paper is meant to communicate findings in the research of each one of these professors, for example looking at if certain systems could be applied to model and predict the flow of traffic on freeway systems.

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