12 Basic IQ Skills: Popular vs. Scholarly Periodicals and Peer-review.
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Scholarly Journal vs. Popular Magazine
Periodicals
What is a Periodical?
Periodicals are published on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
Periodicals can be:
News & popular magazines
Newspapers Professional trade
journals Scholarly journals Sensational press
Popular Magazines
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.
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
Popular Magazines
Is it cited? Rarely cites sources.
What are some examples of Popular Magazines?
Scholarly Journals
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.
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.
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.
Scholarly Journals
Is it cited? Yes. Includes footnotes
and bibliography.footnotes
Scholarly Journals
Names of Scholarly Journals includes any of the following words: Annals Journals Proceedings Quarterly Review Studies Survey Transactions
Scholarly Articles
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.
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.
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: An abstract or a
brief summary of its main points.
An introduction, methodology, discussion or results, and conclusion.
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: Graphs and charts
and/or much math.
A lengthy bibliography with a long list of sources.
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles will contain: Advance and
technical vocabulary.
A brief biography of the author.
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.
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.
Scholarly Articles
Where can I find a scholarly article?
Scholarly articles can be found in the databases accessible through the library’s website.
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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