Week 8 Article Summaries Workshop
This week the focus is on completing your Project Milestone 2: 10 article summaries assignment, which is due this week by 5pm on Friday.
Objectives
Generate detailed, structured notes (following the article summary templates) covering at least 10 published scientific papers about your Course Project topic.
Lecture Notes
This week is entirely about getting your Project Milestone 2: 10 article summaries completed.
You’ve already read, evaluated, and synthesized a lot of research this semester. As you’re working through the article summaries for your Course Project, remember you can look back on what you (and others) have done each week for examples of how to present materials (pay attention both to what has worked, as well as what hasn’t).
The Participation Activities this week are entirely in service of the goal of completing and considering in-depth the articles that you’ve selected for your Project Milestone 2: 10 article summaries assignment, including sharing good resources you’ve found with each other and thinking through how you might begin assembling the massive amount of information that you’re gathering into concise summary presentations in future weeks.
Participation Activities
- Post your article summary for your Project Milestone 2 article that you found EASIEST to read to the Article Summary Sharing Forum (above). Include above your summary a brief statement (2-3 sentences) about what made the article particularly easy to read. Make the topic of your post: [easy] Article Title.
- Post your article summary for your Project Milestone 2 article that you found MOST HELPFUL for understanding your topic to the Article Summary Sharing Forum (above). Include above your summary a brief statement (2-3 sentences) about what made the article particularly useful for gaining understanding about your topic. Make the topic of your post: [helpful] Article Title.
- Chat with Jaime for 15 minutes via Zoom about any questions you have about your Course Project topic or readings (for example, help finding/interpreting details from specific readings). Make an appointment via the Calendly link in Moodle. (If you have previously chatted with Jaime, you will automatically receive credit for this participation activity, but are of course always welcome to make another appointment.)
- Journal: Scicomm Constructive Criticism
- Find a recent popular source reporting on scholarly research about your Course Project topic and track down the scholarly source to which it refers.
- Provide the APA-formatted citation to the popular source.
- Provide the APA-formatted citation to the scholarly source.
- In 3-5 sentences, compare the popular source to the scholarly source. What did the author of the popular source do well? What did they do poorly? What follow-up question did you have after reading/viewing/listening to the popular source? If you could make one suggestion to the author of the popular source, what would it be?
- Find a recent popular source reporting on scholarly research about your Course Project topic and track down the scholarly source to which it refers.
- Journal: Write a Long Tweet Thread
- Write a long tweet thread (10+ tweets, <280 characters each) about your Course Project topic. Be sure to cite your sources; images/gifs are optional (but do usually make a tweet more popular).
Course Project Assignment Due
- Project Milestone 2: 10 article summaries