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What are Scholarly Journal Articles?: Newspaper Article vs. Scholarly Journal Article

If you've never heard of scholarly journals or scholarly journal articles before, that's O.K.! You are in the right place to get up to speed on them.

 

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- Compare a News Article and a Scholarly Journal Article on the Same Topic -

A yellow-billed blackbird in profile poised to take flight.

Bird Migration

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

 

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- POINTS TO COMPARE -

AUDIENCE: General

AUTHOR: A journalist, possibly a New York Times staff writer

PURPOSE OF ARTICLE: To inform, to briefly report on scholarly research done by someone else

LANGUAGE: Informal

HOW ARE SOURCES CITED?: Informally, no complete citations

# OF PAGES: 3

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

 

On a dark background with stars, a futuristic scholarly journal opens to the universe of knowledge.

- POINTS TO COMPARE -

AUDIENCE: Scholars and researchers in ecology and conservation

AUTHORS: Scholars and researches who conducted the study

PURPOSE OF ARTICLE: To share in-depth scholarly research done by the authors

LANGUAGE: Formal, specialized

HOW ARE SOURCES CITED?: Formally, complete citations, in-text and also references/bibliography

# OF PAGES: 15

 

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