Find a journal article that you plan to use for your term paper. Use this worksheet to read the article and answer the questions. Remember, reading these articles and note taking from them should be a time consuming exercise and as you write your term paper, the majority of the text should be cited from multiple sources.

Note-taking from a Scientific Journal Article

Find your first scientific journal article that you will use in your term paper. You assignment is to submit a pdf of this journal article, answer the questions below, and use the Note-Taking Template for the Article. The note-taking template can be expanded in size. Remember to read the article multiple times and follow the procedures from the class where we read the Micro-plastics article.

1) Give the full citation for this article using the format you plan to follow in your term paper

a. Which citation format did you use (e.g. MLA, APA)?

b. If you were to cite this article within the term paper, what format do you use in the text of the paper?

2) How did you find this article?

3) As you read this article, did you see that other papers were cited by the authors that you think you might use?

a. What are these articles?

4) Hardest thing to understand from this article?

5) Easiest thing to understand from this article?

6) Does this article lead you to another direction for your next literature search? How so?