From the library homepage you have access to a series of resources to help locate information for your assignment. For a brief introduction to the library homepage, view the following video.
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You will be working with different types of articles for this assignment. This chart will give some comparisons between articles found in magazines, newspapers and journals. Magazine and newspapers typically contain popular articles and journals contain scholarly articles. Both types of articles can be located within the library databases.
| MAGAZINES | NEWSPAPERS | JOURNALS | |
| Examples |
Time Sports Illustrated Vogue |
Arizona Republic New York Times Wall Street Journal |
Current Research in Social Psychology Environmental Research The Journal of Popular Culture |
| Value & 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
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| Publishers | Commercial / trade publisher | Commercial / trade publisher |
Professional organizations, universities, research institutes and scholarly presses |
| Graphics |
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