MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

This paragraph is reposted from earlier:

Here is a grid to help you organize your reading (for our third assignment, but this grid will help you with many peer reviewed papers often set as readings in upper division science classes).  

A tight article has more granular focus:  research results, for example;

A loose article is broader, with the classic example a literature review.

Increasingly, scientists and professors are self-reflective about reading scientific literature. And, also biomedical professionals. This is a very good "list" approach to reading all scientific literature. 

Why are we spending time on reading? Reading is key to writing. Here is what Science Punk blogger suggests, in terms of reading.  You can see this list of tweets for some suggested readings of good science writing.

Please look at this long one-page article at Nature's Scritable website. This is a good overview of most science research results articles.  Those in math, physics, and astronomy should think about how their articles vary from this classic IMRAD format.

See you on Wednesday, when you can turn in the hard copy versions of your memo.  We need to keep watching the weather.  I follow the campus closing pattern, except rarely.  Ice is that exception.  Be careful out there.