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Scientific references - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Books take longer to publish which could lead to outdate information
      - Google scholar has a collection of primary (usually) peer review articals
      - PubMed and university libraries have the most reliable journals and resources
    - - Primary is a scientific journal, theses, dissertation, and speeches that are usually peer reviewed publications of new data, results, theories and more.
      - Secondary sources like review articles, literary criticisms, and commentaries that are analyzed and discuss the information provided from primary sources
      - Tertiary is a textbook, dictionaries, manuals or Wikipedia that compiles and reorganize information provided in mostly secondary sources
- - - - Term Paper
        
        Purpose: Report on topic that also shows students stand on a topic, Serves as a graded assignment
        
        Audience: Instructure
        
        Source material: mixed literatures (primary, secondary and tertiary)
        
        Author: Undergraduates, graded students
      - Review Paper
        
        Purpose: Peer-reviewed, scholarly published articles, serves as secondary resources for others, provides scientists with up-to-date information, gives critical evaluation of original research
        
        Audience: Readers of academic journal
        
        Source material: Mainly primary resources, some secondary.
        
        Author: Professional scientist, can be in conjunction with postdoctoral fellow and students
  - - - Read current journals for find 'hot' and 'cutting edge' topics
      - Look at tertiary sources to get an idea
      - Look at secondary work for an outline
      - Look at primary works to fill out the outline
  - - - Title
        
        Make it short and informative
      - Abstract (not always required)
        
        Background
        
        Problem statement
        
        Topic of review
        
        Overview of content
      - Introduction
        
        Background
        
        Unmown or problem
        
        Topic of veiw
        
        overview of content
      - Main Analysis section
        
        Logically organize information
        
        Methodologically
        
        Chronologically
        
        Thematically
      - Conclusion and/or recommendations
        
        Summarize the topic, generalize and provide some significance
      - Acknowledgments (only for articles for publications)
      - References
        
        Cite sources as needed and crate a list for references in the future