Journal Assignment #1 |
| Paper: Liao
SM, Zhang J, Jeffery DA, Koleske AJ, Thompson CM, Chao DM,
Viljoen M, van Vuuren HJ, Young RA. A kinase-cyclin pair
in the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme. Nature. 1995 374:193-6. |
| Writing Journal Entries |
| This assignment is meant to help you
to (1) learn how to use the Wiki to fomat pages and (2) practice
writing a journal response to a paper. The purpose of the journal
response is to help you to explore your understanding of the
paper by identifying the important elements in the paper and
provide a means for identifying aspects of the paper that you
might find problematic. |
The journal entry should follow the format
described in the Journal page.
Before completing this assignment you should go to that page
and familiarize yourself with the format.
|
| We will be doing journals entries in-class
on Tuesday, 2/8/2005. Please
do not complete this assignment on your own before class. In
class, we will first discuss the structure of the paper (Where
is the information found in this paper? How is a Nature paper
different from papers in other journals? How can we distinguish
important from unimportant detail in the paper?) and then how
the journal entry should be approached. |
| We will spend about 20-30 minutes in
making our journal entries. When they have been completed,
students will spend about 10 minutes reading the journal entries
of two members of their class groups and providing a peer review
of each entry, written into the Wiki page in italics. Authors
and peer reviewers will then spend about 5 minutes discussing
the entries and authors will have the opportunity to edit them
outside of class. |
| Finding Related Journal Articles |
| After completing the journal entry assignment,
each member of the class will spend the second hour of the
class identifying articles related to the assigned paper. The
class will use the Entrez resource at the National Library
of Medicine. The URL for Entrez is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/.
The paper is relatively old, so we will be interested to see
how the field has progressed by identifying papers that continue
the line of research started in the work described in the paper.
The class will discuss productive areas for inquiry, then each
group will be assigned a topic area within which they will
search using Entrez. |
| The skills learned in this assignment
will be used in future journal entry assignments and in the
other two written projects. |
