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Reading Primary Literature: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Research Articles in Biology

By Christopher M. Gillen

ISBN-10: 0-8053-4599-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-8053-4599-5What's this?

Published by Benjamin Cummings

© 2007

Pub. Date: Dec 6, 2006

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents

 
Brief Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction to the booklet
Section 2: Finding research articles
Section 3: The Anatomy of a Paper
Section 4: The Introduction
Section 5: The Methods
Section 6: The Results
Section 7: The Discussion
Section 8: Putting it all together

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