Clear Communicative Content

Title: House Votes to Ban All Human Cloning

Link: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2001/08/house-votes-ban-all-human-cloning

The title of a document should be clear and precise. Therefore, it should be focused, concise, easy to understand, and error-free.  It should have the two sides that indicate that subject and the purpose of the document. The title introduces the reader to the content of the text. The title, therefore, should be clear and informative. In the first instance, the above title is not precise to the content of the document. It uses the house in place of the House of Representatives. In replacing the general words with a single word creates a gap in understanding of the document. The first question of the title would be which house the writer had in mind while writing the material. Whether it was the house of a family or a government house is still a puzzle.

The other instance of incorrectness is the use of all in the title. From the document, the house of the representative voted for a ban on two human cloning which is therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. The use of both would have solved the problem on clarity. When the writer used “all,” it puzzles whether there was a third or even fourth human cloning that missed in the document. Moreover, if the writer was referring to the bills tabled in the House of Representatives, they were two. The first bill that outlawed both the human cloning procedures and the other was the amendment of the former bill to outlaw one cloning procedure and accept the other procedure. From that, the possibility of using all fails. Finally, in paraphrasing, the words house and all will still create imprecision and blurriness in understanding. The title, therefore, is not clear and lacks the merit of precision.

Reference

Holden, C. (2014, October 31). House Votes to Ban All Human Cloning. Retrieved from https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2001/08/house-votes-ban-all-human-cloning