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I have selected a paper titled ‘Fish Production Correlated with Primary Productivity, not the Morphoedaphic Index’ (Downing et al.,1990). This paper is classified as academic, peer-reviewed material. It is academic material because the authors are experts in this field and the paper includes in-text citations as well as a reference list. The paper was published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences which would require a peer-review process. This paper includes methods and results sections; however, no field or laboratory experiments were performed. The authors analysed data gleaned from previous studies to discover new correlations. Given the distinguishing characteristics between ‘research material’ and ‘review material’ detailed in the tutorial, this paper would technically be classified as review material; however, I argue that the statistically analysis methods were able to generate novel information, suggesting that this paper makes a contribution to ‘research’ as opposed to simply offering a review of findings by others.
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f90-217#.Wmi2hainGUk
