1. Coming up soon Next Week: Next class: Searching the Literature Quiz
Monday Due: Final Topic + Review Article
For Guzman:
Bring paper copies to class
form: include url for research article
Feedback/Score sent electronically before or during break
Monday in Class: Cell Research Paper
See website, course booklet, and syllabus
Worksheet #4 due Tues 10am… do your best *Date different than syllabus*
Short wrap up tape available by Wed
Wednesday in Class : Research Paper (Dr McReynolds or Dr Larsen)
Next Week:
Coming up soon

2. Be sure to sign up for a Topic Refinement Appointment or drop by during office hours
reminder

3. Exercise: What’s in a…? Part B (see p13)
Annotations
Exercise: What’s in a…?
Part B (see p13)

4. What is an annotation & what does it include?
You will recognize you have written an annotation when it answers the following question for the reader:
“Why should I be interested in reading this article?

5. An annotation is:
more than a title but less than an abstract ( and is different)
less focus on what said & done, more focus on why read

6. What questions might a reader want answered?
What is the area of research?
What is the significance of the research?
What is the specific problem being addressed by the research?
What conclusion does the research reach?
Is the research well presented? Insightful? Etc.
Is there something unique about the authors, research, etc.?

7. Will all of these questions always be answered? Why?
No…
Depends on article, person’s expertise/background writing the annotation, purpose of the annotation

8. What questions does the reader not want answered?
experimental detail / detailed techniques
specific data

9. Based on the questions reader wants answered another way to look at this…
What are possible components of an annotation?
summary
significance/context of research
tells what you will get out of the paper
evaluate the quality or content (e.g. major breakthrough)
describe the target audience

10. What will you get out of writing an annotation?
a better understanding of the article
one way we can see how well you understand the articles
we will use it to evaluate that all of your articles fit under your topic title
a way to see how the articles connect to your chosen topic (along with your title, posted next to your poster