BIOL398-04/S15:Class Journal Week 2

Lauren M. Magee

Reflection

1. What was the purpose of this assignment?
2. What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
3. What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
4. What (yet) do you not understand?

Natalie Williams

Reflection

1. What was the purpose of this assignment?
   • This assignment is a precursor to what we will be doing for the rest of the semester. We will have to read different articles and journals as a class and on our own. By doing this together, we can discuss what we learned, see how interpreted the work, and better our skills for reading scientific articles and journals. Plus, by reading this articles, we can also learn lessons which will help us improve our own scientific writing skills.
2. What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
   • The terms were not too difficult to understand for me. Just having taken Cell Function, some of the proteins and enzymes mentioned were very familiar such as NADPH and GDH. Plus, cell function looked at various pathways and how they are interconnected, and I could follow the concepts in this article.
3. What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging to you?
   • For me, trying to summarize the article in my own words was more difficult. As a person who has had to read a lot of scientific papers, the language is something that you get used to; however, in summarizing the results and methods, it is hard to explain in laymen's terms.
4. What (yet) do you not understand?