Cathleen F. Crowley

(1) read a brief biography about him/her; (2)  read the article (completely and thoroughly and thoughtfully); (3) write a summary of what you learned about the journalist (two direct quotes) and the topic of the article (two direct quotes) based on your reading; (4) cite specific examples in the form of FOUR direct quotes.  Call the blog by the journalist's name that you chose to find out more about. 

I've learned that Cathleen Crowley writes medical articles for the Times Union. "Crowley studied journalism at Boston University." Her journalism studies indicate an intelligent writer, and also she has worked at The Gardner News. "She was co-writer of Dead by Mistake, a Times Union series about medical errors that won a Society of Professional Journalism Investigative Reporting Award." This shows how well Crowleys journalism is, and how successful some of her work has been. In the article "Drugged rat research hits a sour note" Albany Medical College studied how rats react to different types of music under certain circumstances. "Albany Med received about $1.4 million in grants for the research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a federal research agency funded by taxpayers." "The ultimate goal of this research is to find medications that can help diminish drug cravings in human." The experiments were of the rats that had been injected with different drugs, and their reaction to the music was what they were looking for. "Then Glick's research team injected some rats with cocaine and played Miles Davis to them over a period of days. After that, the drug-addicted rats preferred the jazz song even when they weren't on cocaine." This was shown how when the rats were under the influence of cocaine, their preferability of music can be changed. "In one of the Albany Med studies, researchers exposed 36 rats to "Fur Elise" by Beethoven and "Four," a jazzy horn piece by Davis." The result to these experiments was shown that after rats had been under the influence, their music preference is jazz.

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that (readers) can follow your line of reasoning.  The organization, development, substance, and style should be appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.