MDSC 203 Tutorial Workshop

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MDSC 203 Tutorial Workshop

• What you Need to Know to Complete Progress Report
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• Tuesday, Oct. 30/07 Thursday, Nov. 1/07

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Progress Report 2-Task List

• Provide the reference of the newspaper article
  your group has chosen
• State the newspaper articles storyline
• Outline your research report using IMRAD as your
  headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods,
  Results, Discussion)
• Annotated Bibliography
• Searching in Research Databases Organizing Your
  References

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Referencing Your Newspaper Article

• Vancouver Style (http//www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/unifor
  m_requirements.html)
• A Section of this document (Newspaper Article),
  deals specifically with how to reference a
  newspaper article

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Citing a Newspaper ArticleVancouver Style
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Newspaper Article Storyline

• 5 Ws
• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• Remember to justify your reasons

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Research Report OutlineIMRAD Format

• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results (and)
• Discussion
• The research objective or goal of this
  portion of the project is to discuss the
  portrayal of a health related issue in the
  article Try to link the themes of the article
  with other sources that you retrieve during your
  searches. Dont just haphazardly search for
  anything on the topic!

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Practice ExerciseFlu Shots for Seniors

• Research Question
• How is health related issue (i.e.
  administration of a flu vaccine to senior
  citizens) portrayed in the newspaper article,
  entitled give title, (i.e. Flu Shots Save Lives
  of Seniors)
• Methods
• Data Collection (I retrieved the reference for
  this article from the ____ name of research
  database (i.e. Canadian NewsDisc), using ___
  explain what you did to retrieve article, (i.e.
  flu vaccine OR influenza vaccine AND seniors) as
  my search terms
• Data Analysis W5 approach IMRAD framing
  analysis
• Results
• Relate to research question
• Merge data into sentences (dont just list the
  data separately)
• Justify storyline (use stats, quotes, etc. from
  article)

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Annotated Bibliography

• List of citations (books, articles, websites,
  etc.)
• Each citation followed by brief annotation
  (summary) of the source (150 words) in your own
  words.
• Annotations should be both descriptive and
  evaluative.
• Excellent source from the University of Calgary,
  defining an annotated bibliography and providing
  tips on writing one http//library.ucalgary.ca/s
  ubjectpages/referencesources/reference/writingguid
  es.phpAnn
• Other useful Annotated Bibliography websites
  http//www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/resea
  rch/skill28.htm,
• http//www.utoronto.ca/writing/pdf/annotatebib.pd
  f

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Citing References-Vancouver Style

• Citation Within the Text
• Identify citations within your paper by enclosing
  numbers in brackets, () this method is used
  whether citing references in text, tables, or
  figures. E.g. Branswell (1) claims that
• Consult http//wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/find/citation
  /vancouver.html for more information.
• List of References Bibliography
• List of References identify sources cited in the
  text. This list should be included at the end of
  the report-entries must be numbered and listed in
  the same order as they were cited in the text.
  See http//www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation
  /vancouv.pdf for more information.
• Bibliography alphabetically arranged by author,
  separate from reference list. See
  http//www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.ht
  ml

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Sample Research Topic Databases Used PubMed,
Medline, Web of Science

• Benefits of Administering Flu Vaccine to Seniors
• Key Words (flu vaccine OR influenza vaccine)
  (senior OR elderly), benefit

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Sample Research Topic PubMed
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Sample Research Topic PubMed Results
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Saving Your Sources

• PubMed
• In your search results, select the citations that
  you would like to save
• From the Display menu, select MEDLINE (you will
  notice that the selected citations have now been
  converted into a text format)
• From the Send to menu, select File (open or save
  text document)
• Save the text file (.txt) to Desktop

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Sample Research Topic Medline
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Sample Research Topic MedlineSaving a Search
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Saving Your Sources Medline

• OVID Medline
• Select desired results
• In the Results Manager box, select
  Fields?Complete Reference, Result Format?OVID,
  Include Search History. Saving your search
  history is very beneficial should you wish to
  redo your search at a later date.
• Click on SAVE under the Actions menu.
• Chose Windows Style Linefeeds, and save results
  to Desktop

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Sample Research Topic Web of Science
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Saving a Search Web of Science
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Saving Your Sources

• Web of Science
• In the Search Results screen, select the records
  that you wish to output, choose Bibliographic
  Abstract from the drop-down menu, and click on
  the Save tab
• In the Save Options screen, select Field Tagged
  (import into a Reference Management Tool), and
  click on Continue
• Just as in PubMed, the option appears to save the
  records as a text file.

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Remember the Following

• Regardless of the newspaper article you have
  chosen to analyze, remember the following
• the research objective is not to look at let's
  say kidney transplants for women, but is on how
  the issue of kidney transplants for women is
  portrayed in the article. Thus searching for
  relevant documents on kidney transplants for
  women is relevant only if it is to address the
  analysis of the portrayal of this issue in their
  newspaper article.
• Dr. Sabine Goubau, using Article 7, Slim to
  None, as an example of how to analyze what is
  portrayed in the article, not to search for any
  documents you can find on kidney transplants for
  women.