{"id":2218,"date":"2022-04-05T05:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T05:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:40:51","slug":"sp2271-introduction-to-the-scientific-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/undergraduate-courses\/sp2271-introduction-to-the-scientific-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"SP2271 – Introduction to the Scientific Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

\n\t\tSP2271 – Introduction to the Scientific Literature\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tDescription\n\t<\/h4>\n

Students in this course gain the skills to understand and analyse peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. Critically reading scientific papers involves analysing them against the existing body of scientific knowledge to determine a paper’s merits and limitations, reliability, and significance. This skill is crucial for keeping abreast of scientific progress and making evidence-based decisions. Students will learn to analyse methodology, interpret results, and evaluate conclusions. Based on library research, they will evaluate a paper in the context of the field and substantiate, challenge or extend its conclusions. Students will learn to communicate their analysis constructively in multiple modes.<\/p>\n

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  1. \nInformation literacy: Determine the significance, relevance and accuracy of scientific information.\n<\/li>\n
  2. \nLiterature review: Assess the suitability and reliability of a source. Effectively synthesise information from multiple sources.\n<\/li>\n
  3. \nScientific analysis: Analyse the coherence between the study’s aim, evidence and conclusions in consideration of methodology, logic, and quantitative reasoning.\n<\/li>\n
  4. \nScientific communication: Summarise scientific ideas clearly, succinctly and accurately. Convey a balanced, evidence-based, and constructive analysis in visual, written and oral forms.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDescription\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tObjectives\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SP2271 – Introduction to the Scientific Literature Description Students in this course gain the skills to understand and analyse peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. Critically reading scientific papers involves analysing them against the existing body of scientific knowledge to determine a paper’s merits and limitations, reliability, and significance. This skill is crucial for keeping abreast of …<\/p>\n

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