Understanding Scientific Journals And Articles Quiz - Orc Course 2 - Lecture 1
Hi everyone ! This is a small quiz after reading the lecture 1 to examine your understanding about Scientific Journals - an important step to begin doing research. Hope everyone will get the best score. Let's start !
- 1.Which of the following pieces of writing would be considered primary literature?
- A.
A textbook written by physicist
- B.
a newspaper article written by a biologist
- C.
Laboratory notes written by a chemist
- D.
A scientific journal article written by a biologist
- 2.How do scientists indicate that they are building on past work in their scientific journal articles?
- A.
By citing as many references as possible
- B.
By describing past work and how their results fit in
- C.
By using established methods to conduct their research
- D.
By separating the raw data from their interpretation
- 3.Why do scientific journal articles include abstracts at the beginning?
- A.
To provide a concise summary of the work
- B.
So the abstract can be included in search databases
- C.
So the importance of the work can be quickly assessed
- D.
All of these answers are correct.
- 4.In which section of a scientific article are you MOST LIKELY to find a graph?
- A.
Abstract
- B.
Introduction
- C.
Materials and Methods
- D.
Result
- 5.What is the purpose of publishing research in a scientific journal and not a popular magazine?
- A.
Scientific journals have many more readers than magazines.
- B.
Only other scientists are interested in reading about research.
- C.
Journals review articles more rigorously and tend to be focused on one specialty.
- D.
Research must be shown to be correct before the wider population can read it.
- 6.Scientific articles follow a specific structure because
- A.
It creates an archive that we reference.
- B.
It makes finding information easier
- C.
It helps other scientists reproduce the research.
- D.
All of the above.
- 7.Scientists often begin their research by reading articles published by others on the same or a similar topic. This is because the articles
- A.
Give us a research project to retry.
- B.
Provide information that we can use in our own project.
- C.
Tell us the proven facts about our subject.
- D.
Show us what has been done and what to avoid researching.
- 8.Please read this link:http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/07/could-some-vaccines-make-diseases-more-deadly?rss=1Is it a-a scientific journal article?-a newspaper article?
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