This blog post will about the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
This journal has a numerous amount of authors as it seems to be a collection of scientific papers written by people in a variety of fields. There are 16 fields covered in this journal which each field having about 5-10 new paper published. This makes it hard to know the amount of authors in the journal as a whole. However, specifically in the article "Defining the rate-limiting processes of bacterial cytokinesis" the authors are Carla Coltharp and Jie Xiao. Carla is a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University and she works under Jie Xiao who received her graduate from Rice University.
In the journal they are portrayed as intelligent well versed people. Their work is peer-reviewed and also reviewed by the editors of the journal which increases their credibility.
The intended audience for this journal is professionals is the fields covered by the journal. I can tell because of the title of the journal itself because it comes from the National Academy of Sciences which is something professionals look at to keep in touch with what is going on in their field.
The secondary audience could be people who are not professionals in their fields and are just interested in a particular paper that was published in this journal.
The online journal was published on February 23, 2016 so it is relatively new. Typical rules of the genre is specific, scientific writing. The journal covers a multitude of fields so there are a lot of current events that could have affected the writing of some of the authors.
The overall message of this journal issue is updating people on recent findings in the sciences. I decided this not only by the title of the journal but because of the papers published. Published in the journals are papers like "Microbiome of genetically engineered trees" and "Cheating and quorum sensing" so it appears the journal's message is relaying any new findings to its audience.
The purpose of this journal is the exact same thing as its message, educating people on recent findings in the sciences.
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