Choosing Primary Literature in Biology to Achieve Specific Educational Goals: Some Guidelines for Identifying the Strengths and Weaknesses of Prospective Research Articles

by: Susan Bandoni Muench

The author, a professor at SUNY Geneseo, reports on her experiences using primary literature as the major focus of a seminar on evolutionary biology. Having discovered that the choice of articles can be the key to student understanding of scientific reasoning, this article lists a set of criteria for selecting papers to use with undergraduates.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2000Stock # jcst00_029_04_255Volume 029Issue 04

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