Sea Shepherd

The author of Neptune's Navy has a great use of structure and evidence in this article about Paul Watson's wild crusades to save the oceans. He incorporates a majority of back round history, evidence, and a very strong hook that gets you going throughout the whole article.

Having strong back round history is a very strong tactic i can use from reading this story. Its always important to have history to pull from to get a better understanding of what your trying to get across become more understandable. For example he says "In 1946, the world's major whaling nations formed an international whaling commission to manage the world's whaling fisheries". With this said it was easier to understand what started these whaling crusades. This also falls into the evidence category.

Having strong evidence helps support your piece of writing and backs up your facts or opinions. I could maybe incorporate a little more evidence in my arguments and conflicts section just as the author does on page 3 paragraph 2. This makes your writing more well rounded and more clear adding great structure.

By starting off with a strong hook its easy to grab the readers attention. Having a strong introduction is something i like about this article. In my H2O project i have been focusing on my introduction and how to grab the readers attention. Neptune's Navy starts out by telling a story which i think is a very good idea. It gets the reader involved and "hooked" which is a very good literary technique to have.

In all i think this article is a good example for techniques of writing i may be able to incorporate in my own photo essay. Reading his good example gives me an idea of what to do with my own work that can only help me succeed in my writing.