ANT202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Imrad, Open Peer Review, Refworks
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Research articles/original articles: brings out something that is new. Case report (medical literature: designed to tell you the data they gathered from people and what it might mean. Technical note: talks about the instruments they use to carry out experiments. Letters/communications/editorials: somewhat similar to book reviews. Non-scientific material: book reviews, not subject to reply back. A typical scientific pater will include the following: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, literature cited. Based on international committee of medical journal editors. Esults (a)nd (d)iscussion expected to be followed whenever you write a paper. Abstract short (~250 words) summary that precedes the paper should contain info about: what question were you trying to answer, how was the research performed, what results were obtained, what is the significance of results, conclusion. Used to provide some background on the research question. Makes reference to the results and conclusions of previous studies. Explains why the topic in question is of scientific interest.
