BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - American Medical Association, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Comes first and contains original research on which other research is based. Is usually the first formal appearance of experimental results and must contain a results section and be written in the first person. Primary source: researchers can submit a paper about their results to a professional journal, primary journals: nature, science, ecology, journal of ornithology, journal of physiology, Evaluating scientific information: peer review: evaluation of submitted research papers by other experts in the field. Is an article that is published in a peer-reviewed journal (also called a scholarly journal) Is intended for a professional or academic reader/audience, and the language in which it is written tends to be formal and scientific (i. e. , contains scientific terminology) Note that not all items in a scholarly journal are scholarly research articles. Peer-reviewed journals will also publish opinions (also called editorials), news items, letters to the editor, and book reviews. Describes, interprets, comments on, discusses material found in primary sources.
