PB2A - From Trainspotting to SCIgen

Scholarly journals or academic journals tend to be dense and complex in nature. These journals are usually read or reviewed by people in their field and changed as new ideas begin to formulate, in order to make the piece better. Furthermore, the scholarly journal that I chose to review had to do with the Scottish movie Trainspotting. The scholarly source was written by Bert Cardullo who not only analyzed the film Trainspotting but also analyzed the book that happened to be named the same. In his journal he also analyzed similar films that had similar contexts and ideas to Trainspotting. Likewise, SCIgen also has a similar academic format as the scholarly source, overall the conventions and the features that each one has is slightly different from one another, but for the most part the two have similar features.      

Furthermore, the genre generator of SCIgen is complex in nature as it involves many features. First and foremost the jargon that was present in the genre generator was academic and scholarly even though some of the sentences structures were oddly written. The sentences sometimes felt as if they were in a wrong order and did not flow. Also another aspect of this was the format of the piece as it was structured with an abstract of the whole piece which gave a description of the entire work. Each SCIgen generator involved some sort of intro part where there would be a mention of a hypothesis and past methods that the work had been tested. Followed by that there would be a research and graph section that had diagrams and captions that would describe the results of the test. After the research section there would often be a section that would explain the conclusion that the researcher found from the research that had been conducted. Lastly what would be involved in the generator would be a works cited section where all the information the researcher used to prove his point would be acknowledged. The feature or conventions that make up the SCIgen generator are similar to that of a scholarly article as there are only a few features that differ between the two. 

Moreover, the scholarly journal that was researched was a journal regarding the movie Trainspotting and how well the characters and plot were portrayed in the film to the book. The format of the article was a little bit of an intro to the country that it was filmed in which was Scotland. Then the overall plot of the film was analyzed as well as the music components that were used in the film. The next convention of the piece was the analyzation of the different camera angles that the director used in order to convey a man that was on heroin. After primarily examining a few features of the film Cardullo begins disassembling the novel and breaking up the different parts of the novel and comparing the structure of the movie and the novel. As Cardullo mentions the “coming-of-age story” which he identifies as Trainspotting, he reveals certain quotes that were prominent in the novel and how they were adapted in the film. After this he begins to break down each character and analyze all of their qualities in both the film and novel. He seems to enjoy all of the characters in the film other than Renton who he seems to think could have been played by a better person. The last component that Cardullo used was the works cited page in order to address all of the information that he used in his piece. Lastly, the main difference that seemed to be predominant between SCIgen and Cardullo’s piece has to be the difference in topics as the topics are fairly different, however the structures of the two seemed to follow a similar structure of analyzation and eventually to a works cited portion.

Works Cited

Cardullo, Bert. "Fiction Into Film, Or Bringing Welsh To A Boyle." Literature Film Quarterly 25.3(1997): 158. Academic Search        

           Complete. Web. 18 Apr. 2015.