Category Archives: Discipline/Major

Presenting your Data

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Now that you have decided how to organize your data, how do you present it?  Today’s information is based in part on A.V. Abela‘s popular Chart Chooser diagram which is also available in an interactive form.  Although the chart chooser … Continue reading →

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Organizing Data in your Paper

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last time, I mentioned that if you have multiple experiments that you should decide on an order and then stick to that order.  So how do you decide on an order?  Let’s say this is your data You might decide … Continue reading →

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Writing and Fractals

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last time I mentioned that the four main parts of a scientific article are Introduction, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.  This is all fine and dandy when you’re writing a 12-20 page paper, but what if you’re writing something longer like … Continue reading →

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Scientific Papers and the Research Process

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Since the last four posts were on databases, I thought I would spend the next four posts on scientific writing.  Today, I start with the basics:  the structure of a scientific paper. Scientific papers follow an idealized form of the … Continue reading →

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Searching Databases and Driving Cars

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

With the plethora of databases comes a variety of different interfaces. Some databases might use be accessed using different interfaces. Some interfaces can access more than one database. Most people are creatures of habit:  they find a database they like … Continue reading →

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Indexes vs. Electronic Journal Collections: Why aren’t any articles from this journal showing up?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

On occasion, I get asked why no articles from certain journals show up when a patron does a search in one of the databases.  Usually the reason is because the patron is searching an electronic journal collection rather than an … Continue reading →

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Cited Reference Search

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

In my last entry, I talked about cited reference searches.  What are these exactly? Most people realize that when they find an article that really fits their topic looking at the references listed at the end of article will lead … Continue reading →

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What’s the Best Database?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

If you have ever looked at the list of electronic resources at Baylor, you can be easily overwhelmed as we currently have almost 700 listed.  Although you can narrow the list down by a subject in the pull-down menu, the … Continue reading →

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