DnD: Biochemistry - Advantage of soybean isoflavone as antiandrogen on acne vulgaris

Deconstruct and Digest (DnD) is a series of worksheets designed to expose students to professional scientific writing and familiarize them with the format, language, and overall style. Through DnD, students will have the opportunity to read real, published scientific papers (generally, ones I've found via open access journals and use for educational purposes only). For more about what DnD is all about, check out its debut post.

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This DnD worksheet on Advantage of soybean isoflavone as antiandrogenon acne vulgaris, written by Puguh Riyanto, Prasetyowati Subchan, and Rosa Lelyana. (You can download the article for yourself at the link above.)

Just to add a few notes to the DnD worksheet itself:

Acne - that's a pretty widely shared issue teens can relate to, no?

This worksheet deconstructs just the Introduction section of the five-page article. It is appropriate as an introduction to reading science articles since it doesn't require the student to digest the whole paper. It is also great for students who are proclaim they are "humanities people" because the most prominent instruction of the worksheet requires the student to rewrite the three-paragraph Introductions section with more coherent English. These students in particular can understand how the science community shares common values in good writing skills as in their English and history classes.

I hope you enjoy the worksheet and the many more DnD worksheets to come! Please do let me know what you think, suggestions for the types of questions on the worksheet, or if you have any papers you think would be great for another DnD worksheet.