Exercises
2.1 Analyze published papers.
Identify key story points. Did the authors do a good job of highlighting the story? How far along the flow from data to understanding did the paper go? Could they have taken it further?
Please add your own references beneath each category if you have chosen other papers. Please identify key story points by typing beneath each reference. For highlights, flow, etc., type your responses or state them verbally, or both.
From a specialist journal written by a recognized leader
Roscioni SS, de Zeeuw D, Hellemons ME, Mischak H, Zürbig P, Bakker SJ, Gansevoort RT, Reinhard H, Persson F, Lajer M, Rossing P, Lambers Heerspink HJ. A urinary peptide biomarker set predicts worsening of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia. 2013 Feb;56(2):259-67.
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-012-2755-2
A “normal” paper from a specialist journal
Bell GI, Meschino MT, Hughes-Large JM, Broughton HC, Xenocostas A, Hess DA. Combinatorial human progenitor cell transplantation optimizes islet regeneration through secretion of paracrine factors. Stem Cells Dev. 2012 Jul 20;21(11):1863-76.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/scd.2011.0634
We'll follow Joshua Schimel's Writing Science: How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded. https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Science-Papers-Proposals-Funded/dp/0199760241/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314843099&sr=1-1#reader_0199760241
Dr. Schimel hosts 3 webinars that follow the book. Framing the story: structure https://vimeo.com/17432903 Language https://vimeo.com/17433480 Flow https://vimeo.com/17433887
For today's session we'll do exercise 2.1.
Exercises 2.1 Analyze published papers. Identify key story points. Did the authors do a good job of highlighting the story? How far along the flow from data to understanding did the paper go? Could they have taken it further? Please add your own references beneath each category if you have chosen other papers. Please identify key story points by typing beneath each reference. For highlights, flow, etc., type your responses or state them verbally, or both.
From a specialist journal written by a recognized leader
Roscioni SS, de Zeeuw D, Hellemons ME, Mischak H, Zürbig P, Bakker SJ, Gansevoort RT, Reinhard H, Persson F, Lajer M, Rossing P, Lambers Heerspink HJ. A urinary peptide biomarker set predicts worsening of albuminuria in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia. 2013 Feb;56(2):259-67. http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-012-2755-2
A “normal” paper from a specialist journal
Bell GI, Meschino MT, Hughes-Large JM, Broughton HC, Xenocostas A, Hess DA. Combinatorial human progenitor cell transplantation optimizes islet regeneration through secretion of paracrine factors. Stem Cells Dev. 2012 Jul 20;21(11):1863-76. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/scd.2011.0634