Journal Article Assignment
For the Journal Article Assignment, students are required to meet with a Librarian or a Tutor. You do not need to meet with both! Below is information about what Librarians and Tutors can help with, because they have different areas of expertise.
Meeting with a Librarian (Make a Research Appointment with a Librarian)
Librarians can help with these parts of your assignment:
- Narrowing down your topic to a field within biology life sciences.
- Demonstrating how to search a research database to find an article.
- Helping you locate a primary resource research article with the following article sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results & Discussion, Conclusion and References.
- Locating the article permalink to the article.
- Locating the article citation.
Meeting with a Tutor (Tutoring Services Appointment Information)
Tutors can help with these parts of your assignment:
- Writing an outline of the article.
- Reviewing a draft outline of the article.
- Formatting the article citation.
