WRD 110 Example Podcasts and Podcast Clips

Soon you will be searching for a scholarly journal article to read and summarize. You'll be explaining and commenting on that article in a short podcast clip. Let's listen to some example clips and episodes to get a better idea of what this project is all about.

"Adding Memory" from the episode "Memory and Forgetting," Radiolab

"The Formation of False Memories" by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Jacqueline Pickrell

The above segment from Radiolab explains a scholarly journal article called "The Formation of False Memories." Other phrases for this type of source are academic journal article, or peer-reviewed journal article. Below is the cover page of Dr. Loftus's article. You can take a look at the whole document here.

How is this article different from the podcast clip?

The Loh Down on Science

Sandra Tsing Loh hosts The Loh Down on Science, but she doesn't do the research and writing alone. There's a whole team of writers who search through academic journal databases for recent interesting scientific studies. They write ninety-second explanatory scripts for Loh to perform.

Listen to the example episode above.

Then, see if you can find the paper it discusses in the UK Libraries Infokat database. Hint- listen for the author's name at the beginning. Put that in the search box, along with some keywords.