A flexible e‐learning resource promoting the critical reading of scientific papers for science undergraduates

Letchford, Julie; Corradi, H.R.; Day, Trevor A.

doi:10.1002/bmb.21072

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“…"Talk to Papers" allows users to query papers with natural language questions and provides passages where answers are taken from. Other work has explored tools for adaptive summarization in news articles [12], evaluating research literature [62,69], navigating concepts within a paper [6,48] and providing reading guidance in textbooks [20,105]. There are also interactive systems for collaborative reading of research papers, such as Fermat's Library [1], which provides community annotations on popular research papers, and Hypothes.is [2], which allows users to annotate and share annotations on any webpage.…”

Section: Interactive Reading Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

August¹,

Wang²,

Bragg³

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When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, like medical pamphlets, healthcare consumers may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, however, can be a challenging experience. To improve access to medical papers, we introduce a novel interactive interface-Paper Plain 1 -with four features powered by natural language processing: definitions of unfamiliar terms, in-situ plain language section summaries, a collection of key questions that guide readers to answering passages, and plain language summaries of the answering passages. We evaluate Paper Plain, finding that participants who use Paper Plain have an easier time reading and understanding research papers without a loss in paper comprehension compared to those who use a typical PDF reader. Altogether, the study results suggest that guiding readers to relevant passages and providing plain language summaries, or "gists, " alongside the original paper content can make reading medical papers easier and give readers more confidence to approach these papers. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; Interactive systems and tools; User studies.

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Section: Interactive Reading Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

August¹,

Wang²,

Bragg³

et al. 2022

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“…The undergraduate level is an active area of current innovation. One strategy researched in undergraduate education focuses on teaching undergraduate students how to navigate and understand primary literature: the Evaluating Scientific Research Literature (ESRL) method (Letchford et al, 2017;Lie et al, 2016). Another strategy improves critical thinking skills using "think like a scientist" methods, such as the CREATE method that focuses on a learning sequence, Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, Think of the next Experiment (Gottesman & Hoskins, 2013;Hoskins et al, 2007;Kararo & McCartney, 2019).…”

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Reading Research for Writing: Co-Constructing Core Skills Using Primary Literature

Bjorn

Quaynor

Burgasser

2022

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Synthesizing academic literature into new knowledge through writing is a core skill that doctoral students engaged in research must learn. However, developing efficacy in synthesis skills as an academic writer is a culturally and cognitively demanding process that occurs over many years, requires abstraction, and draws upon critical reading skills. Doctoral reading is an invisible part of training, despite large reading loads in doctoral coursework. Further, reading, writing, and researching skills are co-constructed at the doctoral level as previously described by Kwan (2008). The purpose of this essay is to describe how the primary author used her experience as an EdD student, science teacher, and writer to develop a method that addresses doctoral reading challenges. The novel method described here combines categorical reading strategies with social collaborative annotation (SCA). This method centers on active, categorial reading to deconstruct arguments in the primary literature by identifying claim, evidence, reasoning, implications, and context (CERIC), which can serve as a critical reading pedagogy in existing courses, reading clubs, and seminars. Combining CERIC with SCA tools—ranging from homemade variations of Google Suite to purposeful annotation software, such as Hypothes.is.—can support an efficient doctoral reading process. This essay illustrates several worked examples and explores how this process supports retrieval, engagement, collaboration, inclusion, and community, particularly in online learning environments. Significant implications of this work are to make hidden reading expectations explicit and transform professor-centered transmission models of learning to student-centered sociocultural models of learning. The essay proposes next steps for testing the approach's effectiveness in online doctoral learning.

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“…At present any biologists should capitalize on the resources, data and programs, that are available online to make their experimental plans more efficient and cost-effective [ 1 , 2 ]. For this reason, it is desirable to train students using a problem-solving approach that integrates in silico work into a multidisciplinary experimental project(a few examples [ 3 – 13 ]. We provide a tutorial that was administered to students of the courses of marine and environmental biology.…”

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Bioinformatics tools for marine biotechnology: a practical tutorial with a metagenomic approach

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Background Bioinformatics has pervaded all fields of biology and has become an indispensable tool for almost all research projects. Although teaching bioinformatics has been incorporated in all traditional life science curricula, practical hands-on experiences in tight combination with wet-lab experiments are needed to motivate students. Results We present a tutorial that starts from a practical problem: finding novel enzymes from marine environments. First, we introduce the idea of metagenomics, a recent approach that extends biotechnology to non-culturable microbes. We presuppose that a probe for the screening of metagenomic cosmid library is needed. The students start from the chemical structure of the substrate that should be acted on by the novel enzyme and end with the sequence of the probe. To attain their goal, they discover databases such as BRENDA and programs such as BLAST and Clustal Omega. Students’ answers to a satisfaction questionnaire show that a multistep tutorial integrated into a research wet-lab project is preferable to conventional lectures illustrating bioinformatics tools. Conclusion Experimental biologists can better operate basic bioinformatics if a problem-solving approach is chosen.

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A flexible e‐learning resource promoting the critical reading of scientific papers for science undergraduates

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

Reading Research for Writing: Co-Constructing Core Skills Using Primary Literature

Bioinformatics tools for marine biotechnology: a practical tutorial with a metagenomic approach

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