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This page is for Yeneo, Denish & Christopher

Denish: Hi Yeneo & Chris, I want to start but I am trying to find the question & required material on blackboard.

Hi guys I'll start work on this today. Yeneo

Hi Yeneo, Which paper are you planning on using for this task? If you have decided ill read it and make my input to this task this evening.

Cheers Chris

Yeneo. I'll be on at about 930pm after work tomorrow guys.Denish we are meant to find articles on the journal that Mary sent us. With that we are meant to look at the accuracy this info is prsented. My problem is, is finding these articles. Look at the guides and assessments pdf.

This is what we need. Assignment task The workshop papers aim to develop your sense of how science is communicated to the public. Each group (the OCL Tutor will allocate you to a group at the start of the semester) must find one news piece communicating the results of a particular primary peer-reviewed article AND the actual peer-reviewed article the news piece is based on. Analyse the accuracy and precision with which the science is communicated, and the style in which it is relayed. Present this in ~ 250 words on the OCL discussion board on Blackboard, and include a web reference or scan of the news article. Questions to answer might include: a) Is the news feature successful in presenting accurate results? b) Is the science ‘dumbed down’ for the public? c) Are the implications of the research presented with any bias? d) Is the title catchy and memorable? e) Are there good pictures/illustrations used? f) Is the feature written by a dedicated science communicator? g) Is this relevant to our everyday life?

h) Suggest how it could have been presented differently.

Hope this helps. Let's try and kill it now.


 * __Im struggling to find articles__

ML: don't** seem to be able to get out of bold - ah yes. The first thing to do is locate a media article about science. You need an article that is based on a primary scientific source. If you read back in your notes you will find suggestions about this. If you read other ws papers on this wiki you will note other sources. You have misunderstood the purpose of the dredging article - please re-read your notes, that article is not relevant to this task. It seems unlikely that you will get the work done as a group assignment by the deadline tomorrow - but who knows? At this stage you should consider doing the work as individuals (ie on your own), or forfeiting the participation marks. If you decide to go it alone, please inform your partners by making a comment on this site.

Yeneo: Whether you guys come on and are interested or not I've found articles these articles on how drinking wine can increase the lifespan of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma []

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TITLE: WINE CAN INCREASE SURVIVAL RATES OF CANCER Patients - don't think you mean that the cancer survives better

These three articles were based on this disease and how drinking alcohol mainly wine increased the lifespan of non-hodgikin lymphoma patients by approximately 7%. The reason why this was such a human interest story is that cancer is probably the worlds most crippling and deadliest diseases with varying forms of it. In this case they looked at non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The media articles report how there has been an increase in the survival rates of these individuals with the occasional glass of wine with their meals. The article presents its points by stating the obvious findings of the increase in survival rate and how it's benefited. This will give a false sense of security to those who are a little naive and may make them believe that alcohol is good and may drink an excess of the norm. The Herald Sun article fails to point that out. Cancer suite 101 compared the findings of Xuesong Han and previous journals and they coincided with each other. The only problem was that I was unable to find the intial article which related to these media articles. The Herald Sun article seems to be written by an editor with no real scientific background as there is no author to the article. George Daleidan is the author of th Cancer Suite 101 article and seems to have more credentials as he is a biochemist and has a scientific background. There does not seem to be any bias in any of the articles as they seem to be very straight forward and to the point as they talk about the facts presented by Xeusong Han. The title of the cancer suite seems to have no real impact as it is seems similar to that written in a journal whereas the Sun seems happier to give hope the general public. = = The only problem is that I wasn't able to locate the appropritate Scientific Journals so am only able to revisethe articles and answer the questions relating to those. Hopefully if you guys have any time you find the journal itself.

ML Well done. The first article tracks to a conference proceedings so not good, second seems to have been moved, now I'll try 3rd the third is based upon the same conference proceedings as the first article, but this one has a section headed "previous research supports Yale findings" and lists 3 reports about similar things.The last one of these three sounds the most similar. Surely one of these three reports mentioned in "previous research...." will involve a primary source - remember to search for the article from the library on-line not from google or similar- why is this usually necessary? Yeneo - If you can locate one of the three possible primary sources mentioned above, make some comment about that primary source to add to what you have written above, then post the lot on blackboard, I will give you some credit for your work. Chris and/or Denish it is now too late for you to participate in Yeneo's work. Either decide not to do this task or do it on your own.