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Paper or Digital Versions Many do not ponder whether or not we would trade our paper copies of books for digital versions. Yet, this is a topic that should be very relevant in a world where technology can do anything for you. Replacing paper copies of books with digital versions could come with many problems both for the author and the reader, taking away the joy from reading. Apps that sell digital books could lose a lot of money on every book they sell. Not to mention how many problems…

How to Read a Paper August 2, 2013 S. Keshav David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca ABSTRACT Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. I also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey. 4. Read the conclusions 5. Glance over…

Question 3, can yoga be an effective treatment to help improve people’s depression, was selected to further explore the complexities involved in effectively communicating research articles to peers and in a professional setting. The following article was examined and briefly summarised for discussion. Research Article Manincor et al.. (2015). Establishing key components of yoga interventions for reducing depression and anxiety, and improving well-being: a Delphi method study. BMC Complementary…

getting their work accepted by high impact journals.6 Universities increasingly demand more publications for promotion, salary increases, or retention.7 The present academic publishing system obstructs the free communication of research findings.8 By erecting pay walls, commercial publishers prevent scientists from publishing research papers unless they…

This memo will discuss how the IMRAD form, a well-known format of writing among scientists and researchers which is described in Writing in the Sciences textbook by Steven B. Katz and Ann M. Penrose. The memo will talk about the IMRAD style and how it is similar and different to a historical paper titled, “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory” written by Henry A. Spiller, John R. Hale, and Jelle Z. De Boer. It uses some of the IMRAD concepts, however there…

There are many different attributes a research coordinator must demonstrate for a research project to be successful. In this paper, the role of the research coordinator will be examined, and the key attributes that this role will be highlighted. To understand the function of a research coordinator, I was provided with an interview transcript of a research coordinator discussing the qualifications needed for this role. The purpose of this paper is to examine an interview of the research…

The journal article “Coffee, tea and caffeine intake and the risk of severe depression in middle-aged Finnish men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study”, had to deal with the correlation between coffee, tea, and caffeine consumption and depression. It was a population-based cohort study, which means that it focused on a section of a population for an amount of time. The study was conducted using 2232 middle-aged men, most of them being 42, 48, 54, and 60 years old, who lived in…

Article One Analysis: “Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier than we thought?” The New Yorker article, “Did Humans Arrive in America a Hundred Thousand Years Earlier Than we Thought?” addresses and summarized information and evidence from a San Diego paleontological site. The audience is made up of paleontologists, archeologists, and the general public interested in the history of the Americas and the Earth. One purpose of this article is to inform the audience of a…

Academic writing plays a vital role in the development of the sciences. The main objective of academic writing is to efficiently communicate thoughts, theories or knowledge from empirical experiments or logical deductions in research papers, articles, and theses for example, trying to convince readers and researchers, and progress WORD CHOICE the knowledge in some field. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in studying the rhetorical structure of research papers, especially the…

The advent of electronic publishing has afforded opportunities to change traditional models of scholarship and to make materials open to the public, or open access. The UIC Library is facilitating changes in scholarly communication through an institutional repository (INIDIGO), an open access publishing fund, and an open access journal publishing platform. More information can be found at http://researchguides.uic.edu/content.php?pid=43156…