christopher cox, dean of libraries. don’t understand why they are written don’t recognize the...
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Don’t understand why they are written
Don’t recognize the purpose of the literature review
Don’t associate the writing with real people
Don’t realize they take a lot of hard work
Start with finished productAnalyze and learn the structureExamine the process by which it was
accepted for publication
GOAL: Better understand how peer-reviewed articles are created and learn how their work fits into the scientific dialogue
Examine a particular mental process in depth Term paper proposal with research
question, annotated bibliography with 5 citations and descriptions of the experimental approaches
Term paper itself, structured like a peer-reviewed journal article▪ Sections include literature review, methods,
results, discussion, references
Teaching students how to search a database
Hitting students over the head with “We’re better than Google”
Defining “peer review” rather than showing it
Providing no prep prior to the sessionNot integrating the session into the
course
Article and Worksheet distributed prior to class via Blackboard
Discussion of article and worksheet answers
Brainstorm keywords Re-trace the author’s steps via
database searches Google PsycInfo PubMed Social Sciences Citation Index
Picking out the right article Peer-reviewed With headings to various sections… …and a good bibliography Something students will want to read Something students should aspire to
The true purpose of performing research is to learn and understand, not just to finish and get the grade.
Christopher Cox, Dean of [email protected]