MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Eli Review task due tonight.  Many of you remain in the train station.  Get on board, please.  I will open a "parking lot" on Wednesday in Eli Review for the Memo 2 for a grade.  

Journal club is the context for Assignment 3: one article in-depth review.

UPDATED WITH LINK! To start, we will look at this "grid" (a Google doc for you to copy) to manage your reading.  PLEASE READ THE LINKS in the header.

What is journal club?  Here are a couple of linked resources for you to read about journal clubs:

• Lucy Bauer's NIH guide for first-time jc-ers. In 2015, Bauer was a post-bacc scholar in one of the many intramural lab positions
• 2018 many-authored how-to, published open access in Stroke.
• Pedagogy article on how journal club activities help students understand scientific method
  • ". . .students reported increases in confidence in their abilities to access and present scientific articles and write scientific abstracts. Additionally, the students reported improved confidence and performance in their courses."  From the abstract (co-authors Sandefur and Gordy teach undergraduate science."

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Ok, here is a resource (32 slides in Google) that we will use to think about the "parts" of a research article. 

Good listening about second booster.  Share with your parents, perhaps.