Brief instuctions for weekly paper summary write-up
Please read the paper assinged for the week and prepare the following
typed document
(to be emailed)
Summary, Talking points (bullet list, less
than one page)
a Question for the discussion,
and the Relevance to your
work - on each paper.
Summary: what did they
do? (3 sentences max)
- what was the main finding of the application paper
- what is the main utiltiy fo the methods/modeling paper.
- what is the main disease or drug application - if an applications paper
Talking points:
(for example)
- what type of a method?
- what was the main innovation?
- why did they use the particular model?
- Is this model applicatble beyond the paper or highly specific?
Question: (try the
following formats)
- "I understand that they did xxxx, but I don't understand why they
did yyyy...?"
- "I understand THIS... but I don't understand THAT..."
Relevance: This method
could be used in my research to ...
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL EMAIL REGARDING THIS CLASS WITH PHRASE
"ENAS-880" (or NSCI-532 if you prefer) IN THE SUBJECT LINE
(or it is likely your email will be lost).