Problem
Read the article closely, answer the following questions
I. Is this article primary or secondary literature? How can you tell?
II. What is the motivation for the study - what is the broad problem in the field that the study helps to address?
III. What is the specific hypothesis being tested?
IV. What is the experimental approach to testing the hypothesis? What was measured?
V. What were the important quantitative results?
VI. Explain whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis.
VII. What do the results mean in terms of the broader issues that motivated the study?
VIII. A good article title needs to strike a balance between sounding interesting and being informative about the topic it covers. You will have to think carefully about the title of your own article. But for now, what do you think of the title of this article? Was it well balanced between sounding interesting while also being informative or was it skewed in one direction? Can you suggest a different title for this article?
IX. Provide the full reference to this article using this format: Author 1 Last Name, First name initials; Author 2 Last Name, First name initials, (Year of publication). Article title. Journal name in italics Volume# (Issue#): start_page:end_page.
Example:
Shendelman S, Jonason A, Martinat C, Leete T and Abeliovich A (2004). A redox-dependent molecular chaperone that inhibits alpha-synuclein aggregate formation. Plos Biology 2(11): 1764-1773.