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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.

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Objectives

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  1. 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

  2. How to search ProQuest to find scholarly research • Watch the tutorial linked below. • http://tegr.it/y/4gvr

  3. How To Read and Understand a Scientific Research Article

  4. Parts of a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Article • Title and Abstract (summary) • Introduction • Methods and Materials • Results • Discussion • Conclusion

  5. Parts of a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Article Order It Should Be First Read • Title and Abstract (summary) • Introduction • Methods and Materials • Results • Discussion • Conclusion • Title and Abstract • Discussion • Conclusion • Introduction • Methods and Materials • Results • Re-read properly

  6. What Each Part Represents • Abstract 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

  7. What Each Part Represents (con) • Results • Raw data from the experiments • Discussion • Summary of the experiment • Conclusion • What went right / What went wrong • Further investigation needed • What might need to be done to correct errors

  8. Assignment • Choose 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

  9. 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

  10. “The data suggest…” • How to incorporate research into your scientific writing • Using APA in-text citations • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/ 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.

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