"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost”
— Samuel Butler

Arizona Libraries Link; includes search

Google Docs
allows creation, team sharing & editing of documents with each individual working whenever & wherever they wish. Tracks changes, saves previous versions & annotates who-did-what. Can be saved out as Word .doc

UA electronic journals Also accessible via UA homepage => (UA Students area) Main Library => (Search and Find menu) => E-Journals

How to access UA e-journals (short movie tutorial)

Paper for MCB184, S12
"Amoeboid organism solves complex nutritional challenges" by Dussutour, Latty, Beekman & Simpson, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) 107, #10, 4607-4611

First scientific paper (Fall semester):
'Behavior of cellular slime molds in the soil'
J.T. Bonner and D.S. Lamont, MYCOLOGIA 97(1):178-184 (2005).

For the second lab paper reading assignment in the FALL semester
1) Proceed to UA electronic journals per the link or video above
2) Search term "Proceedings of the Royal Society"
3) Find Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (0962-8452)
4) Choose the 'PubMed Central' selection
5) Find "The costs and benefits of being a chimera"
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences
    Volume 269 (Nov. 22) pages 2357-2362
    K.R. Foster, A. Fortunato, J. E. Strassmann, and D. C. Queller
Vocabulary page (see also manual page SP-7)
Study questions (In case you wish to curl up and read the paper offline with questions in mind)

***Yet another way to a paper:
Go to the PubMed search site
Enter juicy keywords from paper title (such as costs, benefits, chimera) or authors (Foster, Fortunato, Queller)
Click on the link identifying the above paper
In the upper right-hand corner, look for 'Free full text article in PubMed Central'
Click & Retrieve

ISI Web of Knowledge (accessible on-campus only)

JSTOR: Downloadable journal articles (only works from on campus computers)

Anatomy of a citation (reference appearing in a journal or book)

Reference/Literature search websites

Google Scholar Enter your seach topic just as in Google
PubMed Biomedically oriented search paid for with your tax dollars!
NCBI (BLAST, PubMed, sequence searching and comparison)
BLAST tutorial on-line (not required, but if you want to learn, give it a try!)

Writing assistance

U of A Writing Center
To make an appointment with a tutor at the Writing Center, call 626-0530. The writing center is located with ThinkTank in the Nugent Buliding.

Sessions are free and usually 30 minutes, but can be made longer with prior arrangement. You will need to bring a draft of your report, and the guidelines/rubric your instructor issued. The tutors will HELP you with your writing, not write your report for you.

Web handout on a variety of common problems/usage rules

UA library's writing resources

Plagiarism

Web handout on a variety of common problems/usage rules

ONline spellchecking

Examples
An instructor's example Fermentation lab report (Milos Babic)

Anatomy of a citation (reference appearing in a journal or book)

Fermentation write-ups from previous students (with permission)