Sydney Williams
February 15th, 2012
Lit Comp 9
Ms. Holmes
More people need to be exploring the oceans because many things can be learned from them through marine biology. “Oceans” by Paul Rose and Anne Laking, explored the depths of the under water world and searched for clues to the culture of ancient society which could lead to larger discoveries about earth and the living. In this book a team of divers traveled the world to dive into the most amazing features in the oceans. “Oceans” was a very good book and had very informative research in it.
This book was published in 2008 and is not very recent. Parts of this book are about the ancient Greeks and the ancient waters, so those parts don’t have to be recent, since they are not recent events. But, pictures included in this book are cited very well and have a clear name of who took them and when. “Oceans” was written by two people and this book was based on a TV show called Oceans. The information in the text was well thought out and nicely arranged. Reading this book was fairly easy and had not complicating word choice or confusing sentences. Since nothing has really changed in the oceans since 2008, this book is still good for research and learning about the oceans. It supports everything it says, and has citations.
Even though this book was just published in 2008, it still has some flaws. If you were going to write a current report on oceans this book would not be a wise pick since it was not written about the oceans today. There could be new things out there and you wouldn’t want to write a report on something old. The authors of this book are not really known well and we don’t know who they are. Are they the divers on the team or are they people who heard about this team and decided to write a book about them? So, basically the main problem with this book about oceans is that it is not very current and has no new information. It would not be a reliable source for a project or paper.
Overall “Oceans” by Paul Rose and Anne Laking was a great source of information if you were reading it in 2009, but if you were to read it now you would need more recent research. The sources of pictures were cited great, but where they got their other research from wasn’t so good. And last but not least is that the authors needed to be clarified. Who where they? I would trust this book for a fun little project but not a in depth research paper on the oceans now.
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