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BIOD20: Special Topics in Virology

This guide is for students in BIOD20 to help them locate topics and articles for their journal club assignment, as well as guidance on analyzing articles.

Quick Critique Group Activity

In groups of 4, you will role play as science communicators. 

In your quick critique, 10 minutes, each group will:

  1. Identify the research question or hypothesis in the Abstract and/or Introduction section
  2. Discuss in groups:
    • Is the research question/hypothesis well-defined? Why/Why not?
    • If time allows also answer:
      • How is this an important issue? How is it relevant to the topic? Consider the purpose.
      • Do you have a question about the hypothesis? If so what are they?

We will then come back as a group, and do a share around for each article. 

Articles