NY Times style manner, biology homework help

Journal file attached. 

Assignment requirements:

 Write a review (min. 900 words) summarizing the paper in a NY Times style manner, using sentences not found in any of the original article. Do not “quote” the paper. Your review should be your voice, and your words. Anyone can comb through a paper and extract quotes. This assignment assesses whether you can critically read and cull information from a scientific paper, and then clearly summarize it in your own words for an audience that has equal or LESS expertise than you do.

If you need to look up words or terms outside of this paper, do so. The following items are not questions that must be answered in the order presented, but are items that you should thoroughly address in your “NY Times Article”. Do not write an article that systematically, point by point, addresses these questions. Rather, use your skills as writers to write your review in paragraph form. 

– When writing an article for a publication like the NY Times, pay close attention to who your audience is. Avoid jargon that we scientists use, but that most other college-educated people would not be familiar with. 

– If you feel you need to introduce terms, do so, but you MUST define what they are in the article you’re writing, even if those terms were not defined in the original journal article.

– What problem does this paper seek to solve and, without explicitly stating it (use your words!) why should anyone care enough about that problem?

 – Why is this research culturally important for the general public? Look for larger-scale implications for human society – what great and important unknown is this paper trying to answer at least by a tiny fraction? 

– What does this paper add to previously known results? How does this journal article move the field of research forward? 

– Cite the paper (and any other papers you used in your investigation of “background”) at the end of your review in a separate section entitled “References”. Please use APA style for all your citations, in text and in the reference list/bibliography. Use APA style in this paper, and in future writing assignments for this class. The following website has a very simple and straightforward summary of APA style formatting: (https://www.library.cornell.edu/research/citation/apa) 

-You may include a figure if you feel you need to. BE CAREFUL! When you do this – you will need to fully explain what your readers are seeing in the figure. If there’s anything in that figure that could be at all confusing to your readers, don’t include it. Or be willing to explain it. But not at the expense of too much space in your article.