Chapter 9 Subjective 1

What format (table, graph, text) would you use for the following examples? Justify your choices.

1. You have studied ice location, thickness, and consistency in Greenland, and have collected a series of data on these. What is the best way to present this data?
2. Your lab has assessed the rate of mortality for different mammals exposed to the West Nile virus in all the counties of Connecticut. What type of table or figure should you use to present your findings?
3. You and your colleagues have assessed the effectiveness of a new Lyme disease vaccine after inoculating mice. You have evaluated changes in their leucocyte and platelet counts with various doses of the vaccine over six months. During the course of this study, you have also taken photographs of the animals and the vivarium. What information should you present in a paper?
4. You plan to publish a paper on a new species of fungus you discovered during a trip to the rainforest in Costa Rica. You have several nice photographs of yourself in the rainforest as well as photographs of four known species of fungus and one of the new species. Which photograph should you include in your publication?
5. You want to explain a new type of apparatus, a rotating cylindrical annulus apparatus, which was used in your experiments. Should you use a schematic or describe it in the text or both?
6. You have constructed a new drug delivery system involving the use of nanoparticles to deliver anticancer agents to specific brain tumors. Should you explain the system using a schematic or describe it in the text?