Meetings: Wednesdays @ 9am and @ 1pm in my office.

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Students:

1. Hanan Alfoudari – paper.*/

2. Asmaa Alghanem – paper./

3. Hassen Esseyid.?*/

4. Nouf Aldhafiri – paper.??*/

5. Lulwah Alsenan./

6. Fatmah Abdullah – paper./

Activity:

12/10/22:

• Discussing a blog post.

• Communication in science: print, poster, talk, video, tweets, blog posts etc.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor.

19/10/22:

• The process of publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor.

26/10/22:

• Searching for scientific papers.

• Accessing scientific papers.

• Task after meeting: Find a good scientific paper related to camels and send a pdf to your instructor (paper should be a research peer-reviewed article not published by your instructor).

2/11/22:

• The structure of a scientific paper

• How to efficiently read a scientific paper.

• Reading – Your selected paper from last week.

• Task after meeting: identify and highlight the discussed sections in your paper and send a pdf to your instructor.

9/11/22:

• Referencing primary literature.

• What parts of scientific articles is used as a reference?

• How to cite scientific communication (articles, books etc.) in your reports? (e.g., Reference managers)

• Reading – Your selected paper from last week.

• Task after meeting: From your selected paper, highlight the parts that you want cite and send a pdf copy to your instructor. Send an APA formate of your paper to your instructor. 

16/11/22:

• Writing scientific material (e.g., writing an abstract and an introduction)

• Task after meeting: Re-writing (1) the abstract of your paper, (2) outline of the introduction’s paragraphs and (3) the last paragraph of the introduction. Send your writings to your instructor.

23/11/22:

• Writing scientific material (e.g., writing materials & methods, results and discussion).

• Task after meeting: Highlight how can the writing of the paper that you selected can be improved. Send a pdf copy to your instructor.

30/11/22:

• Reading – Cdrom Archive: A Gateway to Study Camel Phenotypes.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor. Make sure to explain what parts you can cite from the paper.

7/12/22:

• Reading – SamplEase: a simple application for collection and organization of biological specimen data in the field.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor. Make sure to explain what parts you can cite from the paper.

14/12/22:

• Reading – Quality and quantity of dromedary camel DNA sampled from whole-blood, saliva, and tail-hair.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor. Make sure to explain what parts you can cite from the paper.

21/12/22:

• Reading – FGF5 missense mutation is associated with dromedary hair length variation.

• Task after meeting: Write a one page summary of what you learned in Arabic or English and send it to your instructor. Make sure to explain what parts you can cite from the paper.