User talk:Kmm257

This user is a student editor in Yale_College/Science_and_Politics_of_Cancer_(Spring,_2018) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice work on your draft. You should make sure that you're relying on secondary sources - for example, when you say that Richard Doll's research was "the first major study that showed the causal link between smoking and lung cancer", you shouldn't use Doll and Hill's article as a source for that claim. If Doll and Hill makes that claim, how do you know it's correct? You could scour the pre-1950 literature to see if that was the case, or you could rely on a secondary source that makes says so. How are your readers supposed to verify your claims? By going to the same sources you used. Not Doll and Hill - the source that told you about Doll and Hill. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:10, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have clearly done a lot of work but have you started toward having an actual draft yet. If not you should soon RJBazell (talk) 16:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]