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Lesson Overview: Creation of Scientific Literature* |
The cycle of scientific literature is an idealized picture of how scientific literature gets produced. This model shows a process that is continuous and doesn't have exact endpoints. Scientific literature presents the results of scientific work--including both library and laboratory research.
The cycle of scientific literature, from generating an idea, to doing the library and laboratory research, to journal articles, to books, to reference sources, can take a considerable amount of time. For Kenyon Alum Greg Hotsenpiller, the process of going from idea generation to eventually having his work cited by other scientists in secondary literature, has taken about 4 years. The steps in Greg's collaborative work with Kenyon professor Jon Williams are described later in this lesson.
*Content and image in this lesson heavily based onhttp://ase.tufts.edu/biology/bio14v2/start.html
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