Below is the assignment I gave to the Plant Design Chemical Engineering Class:
Find 3 references with abstracts reporting on the design of monoclonal antibodies. Please report the names of 3 prolific authors and 3 prolific companies or universities doing research in this endeavor. The analyze command in Scifinder will be useful
Find 3 references with abstracts reporting on the production of monoclonal antibodies. Please report the names of 3 prolific authors and 3 prolific companies or universities doing research in this endeavor. The analyze command in Scifinder will be useful
Find 3 references with abstracts that consider safety and or environmental concerns associated with monoclonal antibodies.
Find 3 references with abstracts that discuss ethical issues associated with monoclonal antibodies.
The students a reasonably good job in executing the search and identifying the most relevant articles. Several students omitted the part asking for prolific authors and organizations publishing articles or patents about monoclonal antibodies. I was most disappointed in that most of the submissions did not include the full bibliographic information. They just reported the article title, authors, and abstract.
The reason for this was that in the "Reference Detail" screen in Scifinder Scholar, the source information is to the right. The students simply copied the article title, authors and abstract and pasted that into an MS Word file. If they had used the export command all the bibliographic information would have been displayed.
I learned that students must be given explicit instructions on how to do an assignment.
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