Integration 3 Evidence Based Practice

Which section of a research paper is described in each point below?

1. Why the research was done and with emphasis on why the results are significant.

2. What the data shows you – nothing more

3. When was past work done, by whom, why was their work important, what the author plans to do in their paper, and why what they did is important

4. Why the data shows what it does, and how the author’s analysis relates back to their objectives from the Introduction.

5. How the author did what they did and where they did it–nothing more

Answer the following as true or false:

6. A critique of a scientific article is essentially a criticism of an article- nothing more T  F

7. The reader should always trust that the author of a scientific article has analyzed and presented the data accurately and in a relevant and useful way. T  F

8. For the sake of efficiency, it is sufficient to read the abstract of an article as that provides a good idea of what the paper is about T F

Part 2. Answer the following based on what you saw in the video about coconut water. You will need to think about it. Choose some of the statistics provided in the video and speculate about what type of study they might have done to determine those statistics.

9. What type of study do you think they were performing in the video watched in class? What are the weaknesses of the “study”?

10. Find and provide the reference for 1 scientific article investigating the benefits of coconut water. How did you find this reference? How difficult was it to find? When you did your search were the first hits/results scientific?

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