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Finally, we want to look at who wrote the article. We begin to build a body of personal knowledge about a field by paying attention to who is publishing what kind of studies and where they are located. We can also learn about the authors by reading the "Author's Notes" in the article. These will tell us whether the study was funded by a grant, if there were other people who made important contributions to the study, and whether the research was student research satisfying requirements toward a degree. We might be a little more forgiving if the article reports a master's or doctoral thesis than if it is published by a senior investigator.
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