popular magazines vs. scholary journals
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Scholarly Journal vs. Popular Magazine
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Periodicals
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What is a Periodical?
Periodicals are published on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
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Periodicals can be:
News & popular magazines
Newspapers Professional trade
journals Scholarly journals Sensational press
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Popular Magazines
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Popular Magazines
What does it look like? Attractive and glossy
with many graphics and ads.
Who is the Author? Staff or freelance
writer; sometimes a well-known person who isn’t necessarily an expert in the field.
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Popular Magazines
Who is the audience? General Audience
Who is the publisher? Commercial Publishers
What is the purpose? To entertain to sell,
and/or to promote a viewpoint
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Popular Magazines
Is it cited? Rarely cites sources.
What are some examples of Popular Magazines?
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Scholarly Journals
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Scholarly Journals
What does it look like? Plain, white pages. Contains few pictures
and ads. Includes in-depth
scholarly articles that are usually several pages long.
Uses technical and specialized language.
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Scholarly Journals Who is the Author?
Scholars, researchers, and experts in the field.
Who is the Audience? Written for a specific
audience. Scholars, Academics,
and Students in the field of study.
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Scholarly Journals
Who is the publisher? Usually a professional
association.
What is the purpose? To share one’s original
research or experimentation with other scholars.
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Scholarly Journals
Is it cited? Yes. Includes footnotes
and bibliography.footnotes
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Scholarly Journals
Names of Scholarly Journals includes any of the following words: Annals Journals Proceedings Quarterly Review Studies Survey Transactions
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Scholarly Articles
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Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles can cover a wide variety of topics.
They may be original papers that describe empirical studies and their results, or a literature review on a topic, or they may explore a subject in detail.
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Scholarly Articles
A typical scholarly article will include some or all of the following features:
Written by an expert or a researcher in the field.
Peer reviewed by one or more experts in the field.
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Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: An abstract or a
brief summary of its main points.
An introduction, methodology, discussion or results, and conclusion.
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Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: Graphs and charts
and/or much math.
A lengthy bibliography with a long list of sources.
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Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: Advance and
technical vocabulary.
A brief biography of the author.
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Scholarly Articles
How do you identify a scholarly article from a citation? Includes one or
more authors.
Articles are lengthy, at least six pages long.
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Scholarly Articles
How do you identify a scholarly article from a citation? Pages are
consecutively numbered throughout the year.
Article title may be long and describe the main points of the article.
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Scholarly Articles
Where can I find a scholarly article?
Scholarly articles can be found in the databases accessible through the library’s website.
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Scholarly Articles
Some subject-specific databases contain mostly scholarly publications.
Some databases allow you to limit your search to scholarly articles.
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