Choose an anatomical abnormality or disease/disorder that interests you, and decide who your audience will be: 

•  Clinicians as your audience: Write a paper (~1000 words)
• Scientists as your audience: Give a slide presentation to the class during finals (~5 min)
• Community as your audience: Create an artistic tri-fold pamphlet or large format flyer

What do you need to include?

• Demographics (who gets and how many have the disease)
• Signs/Symptoms
• Causes
• Treatments
• Prognosis (outcome)

What might help you frame your research?

• Is it an acute or chronic condition?
• Who treats it? (surgeons? Physical therapists?)
• Is it part of a larger group of conditions/disorders?
• Are there more specific variations of this condition?
• Is there more than one name for this condition?

• Learn where to find background information on your Clinical Conditions Project topic.
• Find scholarly primary and secondary sources to cite in your Clinical Conditions Project.
• Learn how to automatically cite sources in APA using Zotero.
• Find images to use in your pamphlets and presentations.
• Make an appointment with your Science Librarian.

In this course, you should cite sources in the American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7). Activate the links below to:

• Learn how to use a citation manager to automatically save, annotate, and cite sources in APA 7.
• Use zbib, an online citation generator like EasyBib, to build a bibliography.
• Browse APA 7 tutorials and webinars from the APA website.
• Learn the basics of formatting and style in APA 7 from Purdue OWL

More resources for APA 7:

There are several ways to get help with your research! 

• Ask Pavel! You can email me or use this link to schedule an appointment. 
• Need help right now? Activate the 'Chat with a Collins Librarian' button to be connected with a librarian. If we're not available, we'll get back to you as soon as possible.