Transcript Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines

What’s what?
SCHOLARLY
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Authors are authorities
in their fields,
specialists, experts,
scholars, and
researchers
Includes author’s
credentials
POPULAR
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Authors are magazine
staff members or free
lance writers and/or
generalists
Often exclude author’s
credentials
SCHOLARLY
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Authors cite their
sources in endnotes,
footnotes, and/or
bibliographies
POPULAR
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Authors mention
sources but seldom cite
them in formal
bibliographies
SCHOLARLY
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Articles go through
peer-review process
Almost no advertising
and color
POPULAR
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No peer-review process
Contain numerous
advertisements and
color
SCHOLARLY
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Articles inform or
report research
Illustrations come in the
form of charts,
diagrams or graphs to
explain the research
POPULAR
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Articles normally
entertain
Illustrations are
numerous and colorful
to add marketing
appeal
SCHOLARLY
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Language, the use of
specific to the particular
discipline
There will often have an
abstract ant eh
beginning of the article
POPULAR
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Language, simple and
every day
Rarely contain an
abstract
SCHOLARLY
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Often published by
professional
organization or
university
Indexed in subject
indexes, such as MLA,
PsychInfo, etc.
POPULAR
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Published for profit
Indexed in popular
indexes
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