BIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stephen Hawking, Molecular-Weight Size Marker, Antibody
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Wikipedia you can track primary sources from secondary ones: tertiary writing off the top of your head ie. stephen hawking writing a book about physics with no results, grey unpublished, not peer-reviewed blogs, magazines, emails, texts, etc . Year: (author xxxxa) vs (author xxxxb, harvard style reference, lastname x, lastname y, etc. Day 2: scientific communication informs, not entertains it is factual, objective, logical, organized, four layers in order (onion) Means: graphics condense large amounts of info, focus attention on relationships, convince reader, simplify complex findings, promote thinking/discussion, always numbered. Illustrate complex relationships, pathways, etc diagram: common caption characteristics, brief intro about graphic, 1-2 brief sentence, define exp/controls, mean/standards, stat tests done, variables, concentrations not indicated in graphic, no units in caption. Why: support/refute hypothesis, how can you explain unexpected results and test these potential explanations, refinements, sources of error, deductions, format, relate data to hypothesis, your thoughts, confirm/refute, shit from past literature, conclusions.
