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Perceived Challenges in Primary Literature in a Master’s Class: Effects of Experience and Instruction

Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

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^§Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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Christopher Abdullah

Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

^†These authors contributed equally to this work.

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School of Education, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697

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Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.15-09-0198

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Submitted: 25 September 2015

Revised: 7 September 2016

Accepted: 11 September 2016

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© 2016 R. Lie, C. Abdullah, et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2016 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We are grateful to the biology master’s students for their participation in this study. We thank Aaron Coleman, Stanley Lo, and Alison Crowe for their helpful comments about the initial version of this article and Lisa McDonnell, James Cooke, and Patricia Alexander for their critical reading of one of the later versions of this paper. This work was supported by the UCSD Academic Senate Research grant, Division of Biological Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, and Biology Scholars Program Alumni Fellowship to E.T.