1. What makes scientific journals different from any other...

1. What makes scientific journals different from any other type of publication or media that reports research and information about science? 2. List the main sections of a scientific paper and write a one sentence description of the type of information each section contains. 3. Why is that scientific journal articles may not seem very exciting or entertaining to read, but instead they come across as very impersonal, dry and boring? 4. How is the way you should read a journal article different from how you might read a news story or book?

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00:01 So the first one where we look at the difference between the scientific journals and the other media is this.

00:08 With their scientific journals, articles are written by experts.

00:13 They are written by experts and often professors and scientists do the writing.

00:18 Then for the other media publication, articles are written by non -professionals.

00:23 With the second one, articles go through a peer review, a peer review process.

00:30 Reviewed by experts before publication.

00:33 But with this one, the other media, articles are written by an editor and are not by experts.

00:40 Articles have main footnotes and references for further reading and authentication of the material with the other media.

00:49 We have articles may or may not mention the source of the test here.

00:56 Advertising is minimal and figures, pictures are only displayed when they are related to the article and are required but only for the other media it's not like that excessive photos extensive advertisements and colorful attractiveness colorful attractive photos are used in them now with the parts of the scientific papers we have the title and the title helped to determine if an article is interesting or relevant for certain projects the second thing is the abstracts the second thing is abstract the abstract provide a complete but very concise summary of the paper then the third one is the introduction is the introduction and the introduction contains background information and the statement of the otter's hypothesis then the fourth one is the methods the fourth one is the methods and the method section helped to determine exactly how the otter or otters performed their experiment then the fifth one is the results the results and the results is a section that contained with data that was collected during the experimentation that was collected during the experimentation then the seat part is the discussion the set part is the discussion here it explains the otters it explains the otter's interpretation and or how the author enterprise the data and how he associated to other people's work, how he associated to other people's work.

02:44 Now, the seventh one is the acknowledgement, is the acknowledgement.

03:00 It's acknowledgement.

03:02 And here, the acknowledgement tells, tell what people or institutions that is in addition to the authors contributed to the work.

03:12 Then the final one is the literature cited the literature cited literature cited literature cited that's with the eight one and this session provides the sources cited throughout the entire tier paper okay now let's look at number three with the third one yet reasons for them being boring the reasons for them being boring reasons for them being boring reasons for them being boring reasons for them being boring.

04:01 Okay.

04:02 So here, most academics have no training in creating writing.

04:06 They do not know how to write an interesting and appealing way.

04:10 Publishing boring papers has no negative consequence for academics.

04:14 If the paper is really fully written and full of mistakes, one will be asked to correct them...

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