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Popular vs. Scholarly Sources At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to identify a scholarly source and a popular source.
Popular sources:
Written for the general public
Often written by journalists
Report on current topics and events
Purpose: to entertain or persuade
Writing style: non-technical, conversational style
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Library databases contain articles from both popular and scholarly sources. This article from Time magazine was retrieved from a library database. It was written by a journalist for the general public, so it is a popular source.
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Now I’ll demonstrate finding a scholarly article using the Quick Search Box, searching for ‘fraternities.’ (see below)
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This search yields over 6,000 results.
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Use the ‘Refine’ feature to limit the set of results to just scholarly articles. That gives us just over 2, 200 results.
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This is a closer look at the fifth article. It contains an abstract.
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At the end, you'll find a list of ref-erences. These are all qualities of a scholarly article.
In addition to providing an ab-stract, scholarly articles usually show you the qualifications of the authors. As you look through the article, depending on the discipline, you may find graphs, charts, method-ology, and there will be in-text citations crediting the sources used.
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Features of Scholarly Resources:
Written for and by the academic community, often people with PhD’s
Report on research or data analysis
Peer review
Purpose: to educate
Writing style: academic or technical
Provides a bibliography or a list of references
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Updated 7/13/11
POPULAR SOURCES:
Written for the general public
Often written by journalists
Written with the purpose to entertain or persuade
SCHOLARLY SOURCES:
Have a list of references
Report on research and data analy-sis
Written for and by the academic community and researchers
Peer review
Purpose: to educate
Writing style: academic or technical
SUMMARY