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Charlene Brusso's Talented Fungi

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The author Cheryl Bardoe of “looking at Mushrooms”, has more of a descriptive variety on fungi then the passage, “Talented fungi”. The reasoning is, the author, Charlene Brusso of “Talented fungi”, only talks about the discovered fungi rather than putting more effort in how they function and live. The better passage talks also about who study them (fungi) and how they lived, meanwhile the other passage only talks about what fungi use is for. Charlene Brusso put a lot of effort in her information about how fungi was used before, but she didn’t talk about the 1.5 million fungi that are used today. In “Looking at mushrooms”, they tell how mushrooms live, function, decompose, and how they help the enviorment. In the pharagraph of “How Fungi Function” it list all the roles and states, “Some are decomposers, some form partnerships with living plants, and some are parasites.” This text cited goes on telling about the individual fungi role, function, and what the mycologist studying them has to say about it. In the other hand, Charlene Brusso and her passage only exclaims 1 fungi type and goes on about its uses, not its function and therefore she doesn’t have a clear description of the fungi and needs to talk more of its discoveries. …show more content…

Charlene Brusso does differ from Cheryl Bardoe when she uses a actual mycologist to tell about the fungi or mushroom. Cheryl exclaims, “ ‘ When conditions are right,’ Mueller says, ‘ Mushrooms swell the water like a water balloon.’ “ Cheryl Bardoe when using this quote it gives us a more clear image in our heads and proves that it has been proven by a mycologist. Cited quotes makes passages and pharagraphs seem better then ones without those, that’s why “looking at mushrooms” beats “Talented fungi” in this

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