{"id":1766,"date":"2019-08-22T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/libraries\/\/?page_id=1766"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:36:15","slug":"eval_popular_scholarly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/services\/eval_popular_scholarly\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Popular or Scholarly &#8211; What is the Difference?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The basic differences between popular and scholarly articles arise from the audience for which the periodical is written.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"large-table\"><table class=\" table  table-striped  table-bordered  w-full \">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<th>Criteria<\/th>\n<th>Popular Magazines<\/th>\n<th>Scholarly Journals<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">AUDIENCE<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">general public<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">scholars, students, professionals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">APPEARANCE<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">lots of color, advertising, illustrations, short articles<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">mostly text, black &amp; white, graphs &amp; charts, long articles with bibliographies &amp; footnotes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">CONTENT<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">feature articles on timely topics; written for a <br \/>general audience in a language that is easy to understand<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">researched and footnoted articles; written for a specialized audience<br \/> in a vocabulary that is not easily understood by the average reader<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">AUTHOR(ITY)<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">written by staff &amp; freelance writers; checked by editors<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">authored by researchers, academics, specialists; peer-reviewed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">EXAMPLES<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">Time; Business Week; People<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">The Journal of American History; Signs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h2>How To Find Scholarly Articles<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"liststyle\">\n<li>Use an index or online database to locate several articles on a topic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STARTING POINTS:<\/strong> EBSCOHost&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/marshall.idm.oclc.org\/login?url=https:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/direct.asp?db=a9h\">Academic Search Complete<\/a> is a general periodical databases, will provide some full-text scholarly articles as well as citations to others that are not full-text. An option for limiting the search to scholarly\/peer-reviewed articles is available in each database.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FOLLOW UP<\/strong> with a specialized database that covers the topic area. Most specialized databases contain citations and occasionally full-text articles that are primarily from scholarly publications. For assistance with selecting an appropriate specialized database, consult a librarian at the Reference Desk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular or Scholarly &#8211; What is the Difference? The basic differences between popular and scholarly articles arise from the audience for which the periodical is written. How To Find Scholarly Articles Use an index or online database to locate several articles on a topic. STARTING POINTS: EBSCOHost&#8217;s Academic Search Complete is a general periodical databases,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-right.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions\/12538"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}