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What are Scholarly Journal Articles?: Magazine 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 Magazine Article and a Scholarly Journal Article on the Same Topic -

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Superstitions and Child Development

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

 

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- POINTS TO COMPARE -

AUDIENCE: General

AUTHOR: A journalist, possibly a Discover staff writer

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

LANGUAGE: Informal

HOW ARE SOURCES CITED?: Informally, no full citations

# OF PAGES: 3

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

 

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- POINTS TO COMPARE -

AUDIENCE: Scholars and researchers in psychology

AUTHOR: A professor, the person who conducted the research

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 references/bibliography

# OF PAGES: 10

 

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