Journal Club Guidelines

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="109285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Human Genetics</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Human Genetics"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Syllabus"><U>Syllabus</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Journal Club Days"><U>Journal Club Days</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Journal Guidelines"><U>Journal Guidelines</U></A>   |   <B>Journal Club Guidelines</B>   |   <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genetics Education Model Project"><U>Genetics Education Model Project</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recessive Inheritance Model"><U>Recessive Inheritance Model</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id98.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="figures"><U>figures</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Exam I"><U>Sample Exam I</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Exam II"><U>Sample Exam II</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Exam III"><U>Sample Exam III</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Exam IV"><U>Sample Exam IV</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="108d2c00dkelyh.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Journal Club Guidelines</I></div> <div> This assignment is designed to give you practice organizing and presenting scientific material to an audience of your peers.  Choose a scientific article on human genetics from a peer-reviewed journal that is less than one year old.  You must give me a copy of your article at least one week in advance so that it can be distributed to the other students to read.<B>  </B>You have 50 minutes to explain the main points of the article using the figures within the article.  You do not have to use every figure in the article.  Also, you may use additional figures from other articles or reviews for background or to supplement your point.  Although, be sure to cite any other sources you use. </div> <bR> <div> Undergraduate students are expected to work in pairs for this assignment.  Both members of the team are expected to contribute to both preparation and presentation.  Graduate students will work alone for this assignment.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Evaluation Criteria</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Clear explanation</B></div> <div> I will evaluate this as well as ask your peers for an informal evaluation of your ability to explain the article. </div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Handouts clear and useful</B></div> <div> I will evaluate this as well as ask your peers for an informal evaluation of the handout materials. </div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Questions and preparedness</B></div> <div> You need to be able to answer questions relating to the topic in general and to the specific experiments in the article.</div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Class connection</B></div> <div> Point out how this article has connected, is connecting, or will connect with our course topics.  You can look at the syllabus for “future” topic connections.</div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Time</B></div> <div> You are expected to use our time together efficiently.  Try to use at least 45 minutes, but not more than 55.</div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Inconsistency observation</B></div> <div> If you observe any results that conflict with other results in the paper, be sure to point them out.  Not all papers will have these, just be observant. </div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Workload Summary</B></div> <div> Summarize the work you did, as well as the work of your team members, in preparing for the journal club presentation.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>