My Interviewees as Professional Writers

A quick disclaimer to get us started here: I'm interviewing two scientists. This effectively confines their writing to their research. Their publications lists are essentially all scientific papers. It's a little difficult to track down other genres on the internet, so my project will likely be mostly focused on the scientific paper genre as it's the most dominant genre. The genre will also dominate my blog posts. You've been forewarned.
Dr. Dornhaus

1. Dr. Dornhaus has done a lot of work on social insects (such as ants and bees), and that is what most of her writing is about. She studies evolutionary processes in these organisms, and her publications contain her research and results from that research.
2. This hyperlink and this hyperlink bring you to two Google searches of Dr. Dornhaus's publications. The first link of the searches will download a PDF of the papers. These, like most of her other work, have been composed in the genre of a scientific paper. The genre is very structured. There will be headings for each little section that clearly and effectively communicate the research to a reader. Content-related, the writer needs to talk about what the question behind the research was, what their study was, what the results were, and what the results mean. .
3. Both of the above publications were composed in 2004, but I don't think it makes a huge difference, as bee behavior trends likely won't be impacted by any events or cultural happenings with humans around those times. The audience makes a difference here, as they likely don't have much foreknowledge on the topic, and rely on Dr. Dornhaus's writing to do the teaching for them. The purpose for scientific papers is always to present the research, so this doesn't change much for her specific situation.
4. For the first piece, the overall message is that bumblebees can convey information to one another when foraging for food. That subject was made evident consistently throughout the paper beginning at the title, and that conclusion is found by observing the results and skimming towards the end of the paper as the results are discussed. For the second, the message is that honey bees dance to communicate with one another. I know through exactly the same means as in the first paper.
5. The purpose of the first paper was to explain how bumblebees communicate when foraging, and the second was to explain why honey bees dance to communicate.

Dr. Worobey:

1. Dr. Worobey's work focuses on disease, and his most prominent work had to do with the flu virus back in the 1900s. Most of his publications deal with his work on understanding diseases such as the flu and similar ones.
2. Here's a publication. Here's another. These two works are also both scientific papers. Refer to #2 above for info about the genre.
3. Both were composed in the mid-2000s, but again much of his research is relevant as he explores what happens within a human body, and this is dependent of external events. However, his papers would be more relevant at times when viruses existed in mass. Audiences exist in those who want to learn about diseases, and the purpose is still to just communicate research that has occurred.
4. Essentially, the topics for both was information about RNA diseases and how they behave. Again, these things are illustrated inn the title, intro, results, and discussion sections of the paper.
5. The purpose of the first was to explain the way diseases like flu and HIV evolve, and the second was to address population distribution in a genetics context in HIV.