Still having trouble telling the differences between popular and scholarly articles? Hopefully the following will help:
Your professors will often ask you to use scholarly sources for your assignments. A peer-reviewed article is one example of a scholarly source.
* Articles are pretty easy to read
* Absence of references
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* Usually shorter, a few pages
* Articles are difficult to read
* Begin with abstract
* Lots of references
* Methodology sometimes described
* Usually longer, 7+ pages
* Practitioners views
* Industry information
* Discuss trends and issues
New York Times
Time Magazine
Journal of Sociology
Educational Researcher
Grocery Headquarters
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