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Points To Consider When Selecting Best Table/chart/graph
Points To Consider When Selecting Best Table/chart/graph
Clear title
Limit total items/columns
Minimum decimal place
No vertical lines
Do not overload with headings
Use captions/footnotes for definitions
Do not leave data empty, write NA
1.
250
200
150
100
Mean number
1.
50
0
Must answer "What did you do? and How did you do it?.
Describe the materials used in the study and how they were prepared
Describe the research protocol in a logical order.
Explain how measurements were made and what calculations were
performed
State which statistical tests were done to analyze the data
The writing should be direct and precise and in the past tense.
Compound sentence structures should be avoided, as well as descriptions
of unimportant details.
If you have used well known methods, just give their reference, but if any
changes were made, then these should be explained.
For human study : Describe the basic demographic profile of the sample
population, including age, gender, and possibly the racial composition of
the sample. The selection criteria and rationale for enrolling subjects into
the study must be stated explicitly
For animals : list species, weight, strain, sex, and age.
For Plants and other species, use accepted taxonomical nomenclature
and write them always in italics
For chemicals, use the conventions of the International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry and the official recommendations of the IUPACIUB
Combined Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature
For survey and agronomy/breeding : Description of site
1.
labeled
Four
individually
spectrophotometer tubes were prepared
using different amounts (as represented in
Table 1) of the following reagents: a buffer of
pH 7, a 0.1% catechol substrate, and
distilled water. The wavelength of the
Spectronic 20 spectrophotometer was
set at 540 nm. To calibrate the
specrophotometer at zero absorbance, a
blank control tube prepared with no catechol
substrate and labeled "tube 1" was
inverted
and
inserted
into
the
spectrophotometer.
..
3
It is important to note that the extract to
be tested was added to each tube ..
immediately before placing the tube into the
spectrophotometer. 1.0 ml of catecholase
extract was pipetted into tube 2. Tube 2 was
immediately inverted and placed in the
spectrophotometer. The absorbance was
read and recorded for time zero (t0),
the ten minute mark (t10), and each minute
in between. Tube 2 was removed from the
spectrophotometer
and
the
same
measurements were taken for tube 3 and
tube 4 using the same protocol.
..
Last Exercise
You will receive copies of previously published papers. Analyse these papers,
looking at each with the following questions in mind:
Accepted as it stands?
Accepted conditional on recommended revisions? if so, list the revisions
Submitted for reconsiderationafter recommended revisions?
Rejected?