Microbiology
1. What is the title of the paper
2. List 3 observations from the paper that inspired the authors to conduct the experiment or write this paper. Do not say what they did but rather why they are doing the study. These 3 reasons should be based on previous research.
3. What was/is their over-arching question?
4. What is their hypothesis?
5. What is their independent variable?
6. What is their dependent variable?
7. Explain what they did in their experiment in your own words. This will require some details, show you understood everything they did?
8. What was their control? Did they have one?
9. Summarize the results of their data?
10. Summarize why this study matters? What does it tell us? Why should we care?