Effect of down syndrome on young adults and children

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Assignment:

Use the link below to discuss the topic and answer the questions.

Topic: The effect of Down syndrome on young adults and children

1. Use the paper's abstract to answer this question: What do the authors state is the "big picture" of this journal article? What is the take-home message of their work?

2. Use the introduction of the paper to answer this question: What are three pieces of relevant background information that the authors provide to their readers that they should understand before they read on about the current work?

3. Use the introduction of the paper to answer this question: What is the question that this research group is specifically asking in this paper? In other words, what is their focus or thesis for this paper?

4. Use the methods portion of the paper to answer this question: What techniques were used by the authors in this paper? List each technique and a short description (you may use other sources for this, but reference them appropriately in your works cited and write it differently) of what this technology does.

5. Use the Results Section to answer this question: For each figure in your selected paper, copy and paste it into this document. Next to (or below) each figure, using your own words, answer:

What did this experiment show?
What controls were used

6. Use the Discussion/Conclusion section to answer this question: What are 3 take aways from this paper? (What do the authors state that they have discovered/uncovered?)

7. Where does this work fit into the "big picture" of this field? (How did it help answer a question that was important to this area of research?

8. What do the authors say that they are working on next? (Typically, authors will write something to the effect of, "this is still not known," or "we haven't figured this portion of the puzzle out yet," or "this is still to be determined," etc. That is code for "we are currently doing this in the lab!"

9. What is one question that you still have after reading this paper? What would you be interested in learning next from this field?

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