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1、Dr.DanielMcGowan论文写作系列第五讲Goodstudydesignandforwardplanning如何做好研究设计和预先规划工作Rejectionfollowingpeerreviewcanmeanaconsiderableamountofadditionalworkformanyauthorstogettheirstudiespublished.Intheworstcases,theirstudiesmaybesimplyun-publishable.Muchheartbreakandhardworkcanbeavoidedbysimplypla
2、nninganddesigningyourstudyproperlyinadvance.Inthelongrun,thiswillsaveyoutime,allowingyoutogetonwiththeresearchforyournextbigpaper.No-onewantstohavetorepeatexperimentsbecausethecontrolswereinappropriateorthecase/samplenumberswereinsufficienttoprovideenoughstatisticalpower.Frequentlythou
3、gh,researchersrushintoexperimentswithoutmakingalltheproperconsiderations,andthiscanresultindelayswhentheirmanuscriptsreachthepeerreviewstage.Rememberingafewbasicprinciplesofstudydesigncanhelptoreducetheriskofoutrightrejectionandrepeatedexperimentation.1.Haveahypothesisorresearchquestio
4、nHavingahypothesisorappropriateresearchquestionenablesyouto‘frame’yourresearchwithinanappropriatecontext,whichinturnwillhelpyouapplytheappropriatecontrols.Itwillalsohelpyoudescribetherationaleforyourstudywhenitistimetowriteitup.Havingahypothesisalsomeansthattheobjectivesofthestudyarecl
5、earlydefined,thusreducingthechancethatyourstudywillbeopen-endedandpossiblycriticisedforbeingincomplete.Youcanthenlogicallyworkthroughtheseobjectivesand,importantly,presentyourresultsinalogicalmannerratherthanhaphazardly.2.EnsurethattheappropriatemethodsareusedOnceyouhaveaclearideaofthe
6、aimsofyourstudy,andthespecificresearchquestionyouaresettingouttoanswer,youwillneedabletodeterminewhatmethodswouldbeappropriatetoachievethese.Importantconsiderationsincludedecidingwhethersubjective,qualitativedatawillbesufficienttoaddressyourquestion,orwhetherthereisaneedformorequantita
7、tivemethods.Forbasicsciencestudies,suchconsiderationsmightincludethefollowingquestions.WillthecombinationofRT-PCRandinsitudatabeenough,oristhereaneedforqPCR?IsWesternblottingalonesufficientlysensitiveordoyouneedtoalsoperformimmunohistochemistryandcellcountingexperimentstoshowadiffere
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