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Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines

Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines. What’s what?. What’s the Difference?. Scholarly . Popular. Authors are authorities in their fields, specialists, experts, scholars, and researchers Includes author’s credentials.

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Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines

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  1. Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines What’s what?

  2. What’s the Difference? Scholarly Popular • Authors are authorities in their fields, specialists, experts, scholars, and researchers • Includes author’s credentials • Authors are magazine staff members or free lance writers and/or generalists • Often exclude author’s credentials

  3. Difference... Scholarly Popular • Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, and/or bibliographies • Authors mention sources but seldom cite them in formal bibliographies

  4. Difference... Scholarly Popular • Articles go through peer-review process • Almost no advertising and color • No peer-review process • Contain numerous advertisements and color

  5. Difference... Scholarly Popular • Articles inform or report research • Illustrations come in the form of charts, diagrams or graphs to explain the research • Articles normally entertain • Illustrations are numerous and colorful to add marketing appeal

  6. Difference... Scholarly Popular • Language, the use of specific to the particular discipline • There will often have an abstract ant eh beginning of the article • Language, simple and every day • Rarely contain an abstract

  7. Difference... Scholarly Popular • Often published by professional organization or university • Indexed in subject indexes, such as MLA, PsychInfo, etc. • Published for profit • Indexed in popular indexes

  8. Questions??? Comments... Please Contact Tracy Ponder at 417.447.8173 pondert@otc.edu

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