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HSC 320: Writing for Health Sciences Professionals

Resources and strategies to support the academic work in the HSC 320 course.

About This Guide

This guide supplements assignments and other coursework of HSC 320: Writing for Health Sciences Professionals. You'll find examples, demonstrations and in-depth explanations of various search techniques, evaluation perspectives and other resources.

When you have further questions, please use the pop-up chat for immediate assistance from the MCPHS Reference Desk, or schedule a research appointment with your librarian! 

What Are You Working On?

  • About Peer-Review: Discussed the characteristics of peer reviewed articles, related terminology, and academic sources that are not peer-reviewed.
  • Databases with Peer-Reviewed Articles: Describes how to limit for these sources, and lists the databases that contain them.
  • Search Strategies: Video tutorials of how to search in Google & Google Scholar, Academic databases, and Smart Search. Also lists examples of search strategies like Boolean operators.
  • Common Academic Sources: Defines and provides examples of often-used sources like original research, systematic reviews, case studies, and more.
  • Examples of Peer-Reviewed Articles: Two examples of peer-reviewed articles with annotations and comments explaining how they were evaluated.
  • Writing & Citing: Resources for and examples of APA 7th citations. 

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