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Lecture 3 - Understanding
Scientific Literature (Part 2)
🎯 Objectives:
Describe an approach that can help you summarize a scientific
paper effectively, and link this to what we just learned about where
different pieces of information are found in a scientific paper.
Understand, generally, what you will be doing for your "Literature
Assignments" this term.
Distinguish pseudoscience from science.
Summarizing Scientific Literature
When you read a scientific text, you should ask yourself 5 questions:
1. What is the problem being addressed, and why? (Abstract)
2. What do the authors plan to do? (Introduction)
3. How did the authors tackle this investigation? (Methods)
4. What did the authors find out? (Results)
5. What do the findings mean (conclusions)? (Discussion)
Science vs. Pseudoscience
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Lecture 3 - Understanding
Scientific Literature (Part 2)
🎯 Objectives:
Describe an approach that can help you summarize a scientific
paper effectively, and link this to what we just learned about where
different pieces of information are found in a scientific paper.
Understand, generally, what you will be doing for your "Literature
Assignments" this term.
Distinguish pseudoscience from science.
Summarizing Scientific Literature
When you read a scientific text, you should ask yourself 5 questions:
1. What is the problem being addressed, and why? (Abstract)
2. What do the authors plan to do? (Introduction)
3. How did the authors tackle this investigation? (Methods)
4. What did the authors find out? (Results)
5. What do the findings mean (conclusions)? (Discussion)
Science vs. Pseudoscience
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