How would you characterize the prose style of the discipline?

Please read “Cannibalism in red king crab: Habitat, ontogeny, and the predator functional response” for your Academic/Scientific Article assignment. First, analyze these features of the article (feel free to include other aspects you notice): Is the article presented in the IMRAD format? Consider the elements in the article such abstracts, methodology sections, results sections, etc. Second, select a passage, or passages, from the article. Analyze the text, considering (feel free to include other elements): Can you get a sense of the subject and development of ideas in the passage? By what stylistic means (e.g., the use of metaphor, the use of jargon, active voice, passive voice, specific or ambiguous reference) does the writer achieve making the text more or less accessible? What purpose is served by making the text more or less difficult to understand for non-experts? Point out the use of jargon in the passages. Point out the sentence-level features of the passages — sentence length, the use of person, the use of tense, nominalizations, the use of modifiers. How would you characterize the prose style of the discipline? What purpose does this style serve? Third, after comparing these characteristics and others you notice draw some general conclusions about the direction of the discipline and its standards for communication. Feel free to quote material – with proper attribution. Here are some questions (you are not required to answer them directly) to help focus your analysis: Generally, what is the rhetorical purpose of this disciplinary style? What audiences are served by this style?