Many components go into creating a scholarly academic publication.  The same conventions are used in writing this genre to identify a paper as an academic publication.  When comparing  “The Influence of Strength Training on Overhead Throwing Velocity of Elite Water Polo Players,” to the SCIgen generator, I was surprised to see how much the two articles looked alike at first glance.  Although the articles follow the same format, and general layout and the actual descriptions in the papers are different.  One might easily mistake a SCIgen article for an academic article if they don’t logically read through the SCIgen article and question what its really stating. 

            Although the SCigen generator’s article is made up of a lot of nonsense, when you break it down, it does share a few similarities to “The Influence of Strength Training on Overhead Throwing Velocity of Elite Water Polo Players” scholarly article.  Both articles begin with the title and underneath are the authors.  They then both have an abstract showing what is to come in the article.  Continuing on in the articles, both include the conventions of an introduction, charts and images, the body of the article, conclusions, and references.  When flipping through both articles, the SCIgen article follows the conventions of a real scholarly article so well that it is impossible to tell the difference unless you read the SCIgen article, and even then one might still believe its information to be accurate.  The fact is that SCIgen uses the conventions of a scholarly article so closely that when someone is reading this article, even a well-educated person could be deceived. 

            The SCIgen generator is able to create articles looking extremely similar to “The Influence of Strength Training on Overhead Throwing Velocity of Elite Water Polo Players,” although still leaving some crucial differences.  When reading the SCIgen article, very large words are used to create the allusion of a very knowledgeable person writing the article.  When taking a step back, and seeing the article for what it is, it actually does not make very much sense.  All the sentences in SCIgen are coherent and make compete sense, just as they are in the real scholarly article. 

            The SCIgen generated article may appear to be legitimate, but the real article “The Influence of Strength Training on Overhead Throwing Velocity of Elite Water Polo Players,” has a few important aspects that make it more consistent and accredited.  One specific part of the article that allows it to be credible is the experiments explained, and charts laying out all the collected data.  In the SCIgen charts, there is no real explanation that is reasonable to what the chart is explained.  On the contrary, inn the real article, arm velocity was tested by studying body mass, arm girth, body fat, and other variables in order to express the scientific reasoning behind the study.  The article also had an important piece of information that was thouroghly explained which were the administration of the tests they ran and a picture of the testing environment.  This was key to their argument and backed up their facts by explaining the background of the experiment and helping to walk the reader through step by step.  This approach was important because the SCIgen article used large words to make the reader believe it all made sense, instead of making sure the reader does understand and giving evidence to become credible.