For those of you interested in the ongoing health crisis, it’s absolutely necessary to understand the biology of the virus.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/
Feel free to comment and reflect, perhaps on language that clarifies and states precisely the nature of a virus. What you knew and didn’t know and how clear language helps us understand scientific information.
Note this article was not written by a scientist, but by a journalist who writes about science. You could reflect on the genre of science writing/journalism as a reader and as a writer. Notice that this information would be very difficult to communicate in slang.
