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Physics Seminar - Spring 2024 (21:750:492)

This guide was created for Dr. Lucien Dupuy's class - Spring 2024

Research vs. Review Article

Research Articles Review Articles
Present original findings from a study Summarize & analyze existing research on a specified topic
Based on raw data and original research Based on existing literature

Often divided into sections such as:

Literature Review, Method, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion

 "Overview" or "review" may be in the article title
  Often labeled within databases as a review article

 

Scholarship as Conversation

What type of source is it?

As you may be aware, different citation styles are followed depending on the discipline. Even in just the sciences, there's ACS (American Chemical Society), AIP (American Institute of Physics), and CSE (Council of Science Editors), to name a few.  In fact, different publishers use different styles – and may even decide to use different styles depending on the journal in question.

Given a citation, how can you tell what type of source it is?  Here are tips on what to look out for...

  • Book - includes publisher name
  • Journal article - includes volume/issue #
  • Dissertation - includes university name
  • Conference proceeding - includes conference name, location
  • Patent - includes patent # that typically begins with 2 letters
  • Web site - includes URL

 

Boolean Searching

If you want: Use: For results that: Example
Less results or more specific results AND contain BOTH terms currents AND reproduction
More results or have synonymatic terms OR contain EITHER term(s) "deep sea coral" OR "cold water coral"
More results * contain terms with the root of your search term larva* will give you larva, larvae, & larval

To search for a multi-word term/phrase

 " " contain the exact phrase "coral bleaching"

 

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