{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119/events","html_url":"https://github.com/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119","id":141774669,"number":119,"title":"Paper review - 02","user":{"login":"marjanfarahbod","id":14799345,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14799345?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod","html_url":"https://github.com/marjanfarahbod","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marjanfarahbod/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":14,"created_at":"2016-03-18T04:43:12Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T03:04:51Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi guys, \r\n\r\nWe have graded all the paper reviews from those responded to the paper review 01 issue. Those who opened an issue for marking the review already got their mark and feedback as well. \r\nIt is time for paper review exercise (2nd one!)\r\n\r\n**Important:** Make sure to open an issue for marking your paper review by the deadline on April 1st and put the last commit ID in it. It will be considered as late submission if you fail to open the issue or open it after the deadline. \r\n\r\n#### In general \r\nMost of you did a very good job on understanding the goal of the paper and giving some comments on the mathematical methods. Some of you made good points about the biological experiment and design as well. \r\n\r\n#### First point - We asked for a review, not only a summary. \r\nI wanted to emphasize that \"writing a summary of a paper\" is **very different** than \"writing a review on a paper\" and the goal of this exercise is the latter. It is important that you mention the goal and finding of the paper and the project as a baseline to write your review, however, **if you do not comment on the paper or you can not judge the procedures, you ARE NOT doing a review**. If you want to know how to learn this, the key is that you ask questions, like:\r\nWhy did the do it this way?\r\nWhy this method?\r\nWhy this dataset?\r\nWhy this database? What else is out there?\r\nHow could it be better?\r\n\r\n#### Second point - Coherence is an important feature... \r\nScientific writing needs practice:\r\n1. Before writing each sentence, make sure you know what is it exactly that you want to say in that sentence. After writing it, read it yourself. Does it say what you meant to say? Is it clear?  \r\n2. Try not to use uninformative adjectives and adverbs (no _supercalifragilisticexpialidocious_!). Use the words only if you need to. It is not the goal to impress/confuse the reader by fancy/big/complicated words, the goal should be to transfer the idea/information in the most simple way. \r\n\r\n### Last but not least... \r\nI shall refer you to these required items for the paper review from the assignment page: \r\n1. A brief review of the goal, findings and conclusion of the paper written by the student. (1.5 point)\r\n2. A list (or mentioning) of the related datasets/databases and data types used in the study. In the case of datasets, provide some details of the data matrix and meta data. (1 point)\r\n3. A brief review of the analytical steps in the paper with more details on some selected parts which are relevant to the course materials. You don’t need to understand all of the analysis, but should be able to identify the key analysis/method used to answer the question the paper is intended to answer. (1.5 point)\r\n4. Some comments and critiques about the analytical steps, alternative suggestions or improvements. (1 point)\r\n\r\n[This link](https://class.coursera.org/sciwrite-2012-001) on scientific writing to a Coursera course for those interested. \r\n___________________________________________________________\r\nPlease go ahead and put the name of your paper, linked to the journal or Pubmed, with the year it was published in, like this:\r\n\r\n**[Loss of motoneuron-specific microRNA-218 causes systemic neuromuscular failure](http://classic.sciencemag.org/content/350/6267/1525.long)**  - December 2015\r\n\r\nYou can find the instructions for this assignment in [here](http://stat540-ubc.github.io/subpages/assignments.html#paper-review)\r\n\r\n [This is the guideline](http://stat540-ubc.github.io/homework/paper_critique/PRguideline.html)\r\nHere's [a resource on how to read a paper](https://github.com/jtleek/readingpapers) provided by Sara\r\n\r\n[Paper review example 01](https://github.com/STAT540-UBC/STAT540-UBC.github.io/blob/master/homework/paper_critique/paperReviewMarjan.md) Marjan \r\n[Paper review example 02] (https://github.com/STAT540-UBC/STAT540-UBC.github.io/blob/master/homework/paper_critique/paperReviewSantina.md) Santina\r\n\r\nGood luck! \r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/comments/203728255","html_url":"https://github.com/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119#issuecomment-203728255","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/STAT540-UBC/Discussion/issues/119","id":203728255,"user":{"login":"danseale","id":16580068,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16580068?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale","html_url":"https://github.com/danseale","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danseale/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-31T03:04:51Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T03:04:51Z","body":"[Conservation and divergence of gene expression plasticity\r\nfollowing c. 140 million years of evolution in lodgepole pine (Pinus\r\ncontorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca9 Picea engelmannii)](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12819/full) - April 2014"}}