The following chart outlines the different types of articles that can be found in the library databases. You will be locating Journal articles for your assignment. Journals contain scholarly articles.
Depending on which database you are searching, they may call scholarly articles by different names.
Scholary = Peer Reviewed = Academic Journals
| MAGAZINES | NEWSPAPERS | JOURNALS | |
| Examples |
Time Sports Illustrated Vogue |
Arizona Republic New York Times Wall Street Journal |
English Today Rhetoric Society Quarterly American Literary History
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Value and Uses |
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| Authors | Journalists | Journalists |
Researchers, academics, scholars |
| Sources | Original sources can be obscure | Sources are rarely cited in full |
Footnotes and bibliographies |
| Publishers | Commercial / trade publisher | Commercial / trade publisher | Professional organizations, universities, research institutes and scholarly presses |
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