How much do we know? The body of human knowledge
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The primary goal of this lecture is to help students understand the structure of scholarly abstracts. Because students generally don't know what abstracts are, I introduce the topic by impressing upon students just how much information is out there and how rapidly it's changing. After that, we discuss the structure of abstracts. Finally, I have students break into small groups where they practice identifying the different parts of abstracts using abstracts from the primary literature.
