Date: First and Last name: Reading Worksheet #6 Instructions: 1. For this assignment you will be finding several peer-reviewed articles, citing them, learning key concepts, and diving deeper into specific sections of the articles. 2. *** Notice! You should be writing about different articles than your team for this assignment so you can gather more information as a team .*** 3. You should not pay for scientific articles. The university has already subscribed to several publication journals for you. If the university does not have direct access to an article, there is an inter-library loan system in place for article access. Questions and Answers: 1. You and your team are on your way to answering your project's driving question. Using the key concepts that are important to your project find 3 articles that may be related to your project. Remember as your understanding of the jargon, and your topic, and other relevant literature increases throughout the semester, it may be worth going back to papers you have already read because you may understand/find/synthesize more of the information the second time around. This is common practice as a research scientist. Read the abstracts for all three articles. After reading the abstracts for your chosen articles, please fill out the table below. Article Proper reference citation (use stream rules) What information are you hoping to find in this article based on its abstract? 1 2
3 Which article are you most interested in diving deeper into and why? Which 2 sections of the article do you feel will contain the information you seek for your team project? 2. For the article you have chosen to dig deeper into, read the 2 sections you chose in the previous question which you feel will contain the information you seek for your team project. A) What did you learn about this topic? B) What questions do you now have about this topic? A) B) 3. As a research scientist, we should always think about the purpose of what we are investigating- what the big picture is, and why it is important for society. Why do you think this topic is important to investigate further? (Think about the broader impacts to society and how it impacts individuals directly). 4. What is one term (or concept) that was new to you from this article and when you looked up the meaning of the term- what does it mean?
5. After walking through and reading the selected sections of your chosen article - What information have you found useful for your project and what do you still need to obtain for your project? Discuss what specifically you found useful and why. Then discuss what you still need to find and why. Instructions for saving and submitting 1. This document needs to be named correctly following the format in the syllabus. Example: 08.28.22 - Your last name-Your first name -Reading Assignment Worksheet #6 2. Save this file as a WORD document (.docx). 3. Submit the saved document to Brightspace