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2017-ag-9382 Haidar Iftikhar

2017-ag-10077 Ahmad Faraz

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F. What I will teach you 

1. I have taught you how to read research articles.
2. I have taught you the anatomy of research articles.

[Template to make your ppt….. put your data on this ppt file.. use same formats… use same pattern.. ]

1. Your title of the article can be in the form:
                 Hexokinase-II Positively Regulates Glucose Starvation-Induced Autophagy through TORC1 Inhibition
2. The articles should not be older than 2018. 
3. Please don’t select a survey-based article to present.
4. The article should not be review article but only research article.

C. Material to submit before and after the presentation

1. All students will submit me the page containing the title and two questions for every presentation.
2. Presenter will submit summary of the article (3 sets)
3. containing these headings (as shown in D). 

D. General Questions to be asked during the presentation

1) Pathway or importance of gene/technology/discovery

2) Rationale

3) Conclusion of the full article

4) New finding present in the article

5) Applications of the findings

6) Future prospectives

7) Principle of every technique used in the research article

E. General instructions for presenter and listeners

1. The presentation must be around 15 long with 5 minutes for question and answer session.
2. You must make ppt files from the choosen research article (plus material from internet if you want).
3. You must not miss any figure from the research article.
4. There must be ~15-20 slides in ppt file.
5. One slide usually takes 1 to 2 min.
6. You must submit your ppt slides directly to my email address ([email protected]).
7. During listening, every student must write two questions to be asked.
8. If you feel any problem or problem of managing work among members, you can consult me.

F. Marks distribution

1. Assignment material and PPT, Presentation skills, Question answer (5×2 = 10 marks)
2. Attendance (5 marks)
3. Attitude during questions and answers (5 marks)
4. The students who don’t present at their designated time, their presentation marks will be skipped or they will get low score.

G. What I will teach you? 

1. I have taught you how to read a research articles.
2. I have taught you the anatomy of research articles.

H. Template for ppt

Download the template ppt file to make your presentation. The link is here (copy this link and paste in a new tab).

I. Presentation set up

1. we may take extra classes to complete presentations.
2. If by chance all students could not deliver presentations ….
3. Then remaining students will record their presentation [slide + voice merged]  (less than 25 min long)… And will send me 10 days before the final exam. We can take practical class or any extra class during the week, therefor come on Monday with prepared presentation.
4. So no chance of escape..therefore, start preparing your ppts.

If any of you feel any problem in 720 or 703.. first discuss it with your 2 or 3 fellows one by one.. if they don’t help you then ask me.. then I will guide you….

The students who don’t present at their designated time, their presentation marks will be skipped or they will get a low score…

J. How to find the impact factor of a journal?

Write the name of the journal and the word “impact factor” in google.com… you can easily see the impact factor. Or download below given excel list impact factor and check.

 K. How to make a general understanding of the research article?

1. After reading the abstract and intro…
2. Understand every figure by reading the caption and then by reading text (in results) about the same figures.
3. Then read the full article.
4. Better memorize the discussion…
5. Reading the article may take 5 days…
6. If you tell me about difficulty very late it is your fault that you started work very late…