Notes on a paper from the primary literature
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Your name
Date
Full bibliographic citation
Paper’s short citation (e.g., Suarez et al. 2019)
Glossary (typically 25-50 novel words, terms, & abbreviations)
alphabetize when done
Introduction
The Big Question
Specific question to be answered by this paper
Explain to your reader the background (s)he will need to understand the paper (assume your reader already has a biology background)
Think about what YOU needed to know to understand this paper
How much did you already know from your prior classes?
What did you have to look up to understand the paper?
Explanation of experiments
(or of
analyses if the paper is not experimental)
Expt. 1
Question addressed
Specific Aim of this expt. (what is to be learned)
Variables
Independent variable(s)
Dependent variable(s)
Hypothesis
Method used to collect data (brief)
Data expected if the hypothesis is true (likewise, if it’s not true)
Result
(s) of the experiment
Interpretation of the result
How the result supports (or refutes) the hypothesis.
Expt. X (add more Experiment sections if needed)
Question addressed
Specific Aim of this expt. (what is to be learned)
Variables
Independent variable(s)
Dependent variable(s)
Hypothesis
Method used to collect data (brief)
Data expected if the hypothesis is true (likewise, if it’s not true)
Result
Interpretation of the result
How the result supports (or refutes) the hypothesis.