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Choosing
an article and journal:
There are many
appropriate scientific and medical journals from which to choose.
To evaluate the appropriateness of a Journal, the following should
be true:
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Is the Journal associated with a professional society?
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Do the articles list the author's references?
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Are the articles written by the researchers, not a
news reporter?
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Do the articles include data in tables and graphs?
• Do the articles include
references cited?
Note: PubMed is not a journal, it is an index to published medical jountals.
National
Geographic, Scientific American, Science News, and similar popular
magazines are not appropriate for this assignment.
Use PubMed
or ASM or Science
Databases to search for articles.
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Your
report must be typed. Refer to the Style
Sheet for directions. Answer the following questions.
1. Citation in proper format.*
2. Institution
at which the work was done.
3. Purpose of
the work reported.
4. Procedures
the researchers used.
5. Results the
researchers obtained.
6. Copy one
table or graph and, in your own words, describe what these
data show.
7. Conclusions
the researchers reached.
8. Of what value
to humans or to the body of knowledge is the work described?
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| *Citation
example |
S.
Yoder, C. Argueta, A. Holtzman, T. Aronson, O. G. W. Berlin, P. Tomasek,
N. Glover, S. Froman, and G. Stelma. "PCR Comparison of Mycobacterium
avium Isolates Obtained from Patients and Foods." Appl Environ.
Microbiol. 265(6):2650-2653, 1999. |
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(The
format is authors. Article title. Journal. Vol.(issue #): pp-pp,
date.) |
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