A. You will now be put into temporary groups according to your roles
- all of the Principal Investigators will work together, all of the Protocol Experts together, etc. Based on your role, complete the following assignment:
Principal Investigators (Introduction)
: Create an outline of the introduction highlighting these areas: background information, what are the broader biology implications, what question(s) are
the authors are trying to address, and what is their hypothesis? What are two strengths and one area of improvement in the introduction?
Protocol Experts (Methods)
: Create cartoons (pictorial representation) to explain the methods. You may need to include multiple drawings and you will need to include the specific details of the methods on the drawing. What are two strengths and one area of improvement in the methods?
Data Experts (Results)
: What are two or three major points from the results? Analyze and redraw
at least one of the figures in your own way. You cannot simply copy the figures that are present, you must make a new one. For example, turn a graph into a table, change the format of a graph and/or combine multiple graphs into one. These can be hand drawn.
What are two strengths and one area of improvement of the results?
Analysis Experts (Discussion)
: Summarize the author’s discussion and conclusions in outline style format. For example, bullet points might work well. What are two strengths and one area
of improvement in the discussion/conclusion?
B. Return to your research group
. Each person will present what they did for their part of the article. Then, for each part of the article, as a group, discuss what was done well and what could be improved.
Introduction
:
What are two things that were well done in this section?
What is one way this section could be improved?
