Revisiting "is the scientific paper a fraud?": The way textbooks and scientific research articles are being used to teach undergraduate students could convey a misleading image of scientific research

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Scientific papers and textbooks fulfill an important purpose but provide only a sanitized account of how research works in practice. To understand the nature of research itself, undergraduate and graduate students need to be exposed to a more realistic view of research. © 2014 The Authors.

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Howitt, S. M., & Wilson, A. N. (2014). Revisiting “is the scientific paper a fraud?”: The way textbooks and scientific research articles are being used to teach undergraduate students could convey a misleading image of scientific research. EMBO Reports, 15(5), 481–484. https://doi.org/10.1002/embr.201338302

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