Assignment Task: Read the article closely; answer the following questions (preferably handwritten, scan or take photo and upload):
1. How can you tell this is a primary article?
2. What is the motivation for the study - what is the broad problem in the field that the study helps to address?
3. What is the specific hypothesis being tested?
4. What is the experimental approach to testing the hypothesis? What was measured?
5. What were the important quantitative results?
6. Explain whether the results support or contradict the hypothesis.
7. What do the results mean in terms of the broader issues that motivated the study?
8. Provide the full reference to this article using this format: Author 1 Last Name, First name initials; Author 2 Last Name, First name initials, (Year of publication). Article title. Journal name in italics Volume#(Issue#): start_page:end_page.
Example:
Shendelman S, Jonason A, Martinat C, Leete T and Abeliovich A (2004). A redox-dependent molecular chaperone that inhibits alpha-synuclein aggregate formation. Plos Biology 2(11): 1764-1773.
Reference:
Article: Risks to coral reefs from ocean carbonate chemistry changes in recent eartch system model projections