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Objectives. How to find a scientific scholarly or peer-reviewed article How to read and understand a scholarly article How to incorporate research into your scientific writing. How to search ProQuest to find scholarly research. Watch the tutorial linked below. http://tegr.it/y/4gvr. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ObjectivesHow to find a scientific scholarly
or peer-reviewed articleHow to read and understand a
scholarly articleHow to incorporate research into
your scientific writing
How to search ProQuest to find scholarly research
Watch the tutorial linked below.
http://tegr.it/y/4gvr
How To Read and Understand a Scientific Research Article
Parts of a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Article
Title and Abstract (summary)IntroductionMethods and MaterialsResultsDiscussion Conclusion
Parts of a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Article
Title and Abstract (summary)
IntroductionMethods and
MaterialsResultsDiscussion Conclusion
Title and Abstract
DiscussionConclusionIntroductionMethods and
MaterialsResultsRe-read properly
Order It Should Be First Read
What Each Part RepresentsAbstract and Title:
◦What is being discussed or researched
Introduction◦State of current knowledge. ◦What authors are investigating
Method and Material◦How investigated or proved, what
participants, materials, and/or equipment
What Each Part Represents (con)Results
◦Raw data from the experimentsDiscussion
◦Summary of the experimentConclusion
◦What went right / What went wrong◦Further investigation needed◦What might need to be done to
correct errors
AssignmentChoose a disease that you would
like to investigate the causes or the etiology
Using ProQuest, find a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal article on the etiology of the disease
Fill out the worksheet and attach a copy of the article
Assignment (continued)Read the article and answer the
questions on the worksheet: ◦Complete APA citation◦Author’s names & affiliations/background◦Keywords/specific subject◦ Introduction◦Methodology◦Results (including brief description of the
important tables/figures)◦Discussion/Conclusion◦Cited references to follow-up on
“The data suggest…”How to incorporate research into
your scientific writing◦Using APA in-text citations◦ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2
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Gillen, C. (2010). “The data suggest”; Writing in the sciences. In Graff, G. & Birkenstein, C., “They say/I say”; The moves that matter in academic writing (2nd ed.) (pp. 156-192). New York, NY: Norton.