Case Study Writing

Case Study Writing
Assignments
2 Case Studies (20pts each; 40pts total)

Due Date: At or Before your Laboratory Final Exam
Template
There will be two writing assignments. These assignments are a practice in answering your own question using research investigations. This is meant to teach you the methods by which you find valid resources to answer your own question, AND to teach you how to ask good questions!

You should start with a question of interest to you. Topic is of your choice, whatever you find interesting, but it must be related to anatomy & physiology, and hopefully salient to class information. To answer your question, you should find a research article from a peer reviewed journal. Articles from magazines, websites, or other lay publications are NOT appropriate. Places to look: Journal of Applied Physiology, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of the American Medical Association, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Strength and Conditioning, etc…. Use databases such as PubMed, MedLine, Science Direct, or Sports Discus to find articles on your subject of interest. You can get free access to most of these journals through the Mansfield Library website! This write-up should be no more than ONE word processed page (citation can be on the back of the page) and MUST be typewritten. Writing quality, grammar, and spelling will be graded, use complete sentences! You also must include a hardcopy of the article with all figures and tables (print the pdf NOT the html version!). You should include the following headings in your write up:

Question: Clearly state your original question of interest in exercise physiology.
Full citation: Use style from article. Must include hardcopy of article that addresses your question!
Type of Research: Original data, review, meta-analysis, etc
Methodology: rough outline, but including: design, subjects, protocol, timing of measurements, outcomes measured.
Results: What did they find?
Impact: What does it mean? How does it pertain to your question?
Pros/Cons: What was good/bad about the article?

These last two are the most important, what did YOU think of this research?

Talk with your lab instructor if you have a question and/or want a research article verified.

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