STEM Librarian
Getting Started
Each student will prepare several talks and a research paper and turn in material at different stages of each project.
Talks:
- 5-min talk
- 15-min talk
- 25-min talk
Research paper:
- Topic and Outline (2/14)
- Expanded Outline and 500 word abstract) (3/7)
- Draft 1 (3/28)
- Draft 2 (4/19)
- Final Draft (5/6)
Types of Scientific Papers
Scientific research articles usually include
- abstract: highlights of the major points of the paper
- introduction/background: context and purpose or the experiment
- methods: what was done
- results: sometimes combined with the methods or analysis
- analysis: how well did the experiment work
- discussion: sometimes combined with the analysis or conclusions
- conclusions/future work
Published review articles
- give an overview of a topic
- are a synthesis of many scientific research articles
- good places to start looking for a topic
- do not contain as many specific overwhelming details as a scientific research articles
- can be used to find relevant scientific research articles
- often have 40-200 papers in their reference list
