BIOL 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Active Voice, Longitudinal Study, Organism
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Active voice and passive voice are both acceptable: use which is necessary to get your point across effectively. Academic purposes: ho(cid:449) you a(cid:396)en"t plagia(cid:396)izing, appropriately acknowledge source material, demonstrate effort to identify and use material from outside of textbook or lectures. Scientific purposes: place current work in context of previous studies, appropriately acknowledge source of idea or content, provide strength to your scientific argument. In this class: follow scientific conventions, reference content in reports and assignments that are not your own ideas or thoughts, do not reference your own ideas. Complete test and compare results with prediction. Provide support for or against the hypothesis of interest. Hypotheses are tested with: observational tests, controlled experiments, models, meta-analyses. No active manipulation of the system involved. Well designed observational study chooses subjects based on some defining characteristic. Useful to study questions that have variables that are not easily manipulated. Common in medical studies because less ethically challenged than experiments.
