The City College of New York
English 21007: English for Engineering
March 8, 2021
Professor Sarah Jacobson
The purpose of this assignment is to read and review two Lab reports and compare and contrast the two works in terms of material organization and how they project the information to the readers. Upon doing some research for possible Lab reports that I would be reviewing, I came across “Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?” By Turk Thorac and “The most Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Epidemic: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Iran J Psychiatry. The reason why I chose these two Lab Reports is that they both speak on the recent epidemic and although they both have the same point, the way they approach it is much more different. Starting off, we first review the abstract of both Lab reports. The abstract outlines the whole article and is usually located between the title page and the introduction, the abstract summarizes four essential parts of a Lab report, like the purpose of the report, key findings, methodology, and major conclusions. In “Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?” By Turk Thorac, it pretty much gives a general background of the epidemic itself and we can see this when it started off by stating how Covid-19 is probably the biggest global outbreak since the Black Plague, how Covid-19 first broke out in Wuhan, and how it spread so quickly without proper notice of its true capabilities and without the world even being prepared, not to mention the World Health Organization confused on how deadly it was up until March of 2020 when it finally declared a global emergency. In “The most Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Epidemic: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Iran J Psychiatry, it is totally different from Lab report 1 because it doesn’t really much provide a general background of the problem, instead Lab report 2 takes a different approach and identifies the most prevalent psychological issue since the first case and gives the issue and the methods that can be taken to resolve the issues. When comparing the two Lab reports, they both have matching keywords in the abstract like Covid-19. Moving on from the Abstract, we start to focus on the body. To begin, both introductions provide pretty much the same information, like the general background of Covid-19 and how it started. Moving on from the introduction, we come across Materials and Methods and the purpose of that is to tell the readers that the experiment was performed with caution and that the findings are accurate. In “Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?” By Turk Thorac, their method as explained was “There was an uncertain and challenging process in front of us. Therefore, we had to use our staff of physicians, nurses, and auxiliary medical staff effectively and economically. We had a three-step working plan, thinking we would need every employee in this process, and we did not know how long it was going to take. We identified the staff of physicians who would take priority roles in the first stage. Naturally, this team involved infectious diseases specialists, chest diseases specialists, internal medicine specialists, gastroenterologists, physicians working in intensive care units, otolaryngology department physicians, emergency physicians, and general practitioners assigned as floor physicians. In case things got worse and someone on this team got sick or got too tired, all other physicians working in our hospital were divided into two groups and identified as a backup team.” To further explain this because of the complications with the disease and not much information on it, researchers had to take extra precautions and they did this by dividing up into groups and giving out rolls to make their mission effective and economic without covid hitting and the whole team unable to work. The details from“Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?” were on point in my opinion because they explained and described everything very clearly and the steps were easy to understand. The steps were taken by “The most Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Epidemic: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Iran J Psychiatry were much more different. Instead of a three-step approach, they formulated and applied a quest technique and undertook a study psychological implication of Covid outbreaks in order to evaluate the conditions that occur, as stated “We will undertake a review of evidence on the psychological impacts of Coronavirus epidemics to identify the most psychological problems in these situations. We will retrieve the studies by using the following electronic databases: PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO/ProQuest, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The articles will be reviewed from January 1, 2002, to Jun 20, 2020. Moreover, for further relevant articles, we will search grey literature, conduct hand searching, scrutinize the reference section in the studies retrieved, and contact corresponding authors of studies that have unclear data”. Although “The most Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Epidemic: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” was labeled correctly, it was harder to understand than Lab Report 1 because it was much longer and the approach to the problem was much more different, it almost felt like a science reading section on the SAT…long and confusing. Lab report 1 was much simpler and easier to understand.
At last both the Lab reports approached the same issue at the end of the day but the way they approached the issue was much more different. Lab report 1 “Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?” was easy to understand, they did a great job of describing the issue that they faced as well as the solutions they used to solve the problems while as Lab report 2 “The most Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Epidemic: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” approached the same issue by proposing to study the meta-analysis thoroughly and finding our more on physiological issues that occur in covid-19. Both reports were great but Lab 1 was much more understandable for readers.
Citation
- Dikensoy, Ö, Özkök, S., Murrja, E., Yeşil, A., Tüzüner, F., & Karşıdağ, T. (2020, September 15). Struggle against pandemic in a private hospital: What we have learnt from pandemic? Retrieved March 22, 2021, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544404/
- Pourdehghan, P., & Mostafavi, S. (2020, July 15). The most psychological impacts of coronavirus epidemics: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. Retrieved March 22, 2021, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603588/
