The Inner Beast in All of Us

The article I chose is entitled "Immortal Monster: TheMythological Evolution of the Fantastic Beast in Modern Fiction and Film". I chose it because I love horror films and books and am always fascinated by who the "bad guy" turns out to be. The article was over one-hundred pages long so obviously I did not read the whole thing, but I did read some parts. From what I read I learned that the beast is a repressed part of ourselves that never seems to die or go away. I never really thought of Michael Myers as a part of myself I have kept locked away. It is a hard concept to grasp, but I can begin to see what is meant. Each of us has a recurring problem that just will not go away, or die, like Mike Myers will not die. The article goes on to compare King-Kong, Grendel, and other creatures to observe how they have changed over time and looks at the symbolism and history behind each beast. All stand for something different, some turn out to be beasts that you can fall in love with (an example being Beast from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast), etc.
This article was extremely hard to understand, having been written with vocabulary far beyond my knowledge. Another contributor to the complexity of the article was that it went into history that I have never heard of. Using an article like this for a research paper would be beneficial to me. It provides me a lot of interesting information, covering many different areas.
The articles "Text Messaging Culture is Taking Off in the US-Finally!" from Red Oxygen and "Thumbspeak" from The New Yorker are obviously not scholarly articles. The article from Red Oxygen had many sentence and grammatical errors, which was one clue. Both articles do not contain the structure evident in a scholarly article, are not written so that the writing is difficult to understand, and are both written for newspapers or magazines so that everyone should be able to read and comprehend it. The third article "Exploring the Potential Effects of Emoticons" from Information and Management was a scholarly article. It was not an article that is found in a newspaper or magazine. If it was in a magazine, I am positive that most people would have a hard time understanding some parts of the article and someof the words used. The article really went into depth about how emoticons effect us by looking at different variables and areas.
It is useful to use scholarly articles for research because then you can be reassured that you are using information that it accurate. Like it was stated in The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, who would you rather get information from: a professional or a rookie? The facts that you use will be credible and will give you a lot of information on the topic of interest.