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These articles are good both for finding recent information on a topic (what has happened in the last week or month) as well as finding out how historical events were reported in the past (for example, how was the AIDS crisis first reported in the 1980s?)
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These articles are good for summarizing information on a topic for the general public. They often provide a background, summarize research findings, and provide some analysis of a topic.
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*Sometimes called Professional Journals or Industry Journals
These articles are good to keep people in a particular field of work or trade (veterinarians, police officers, hotel managers, teachers, librarians, advertisers...etc.) up-to-date on trends in their line of work. Articles often summarize and analyze findings from scholarly research.
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*Sometimes called Scholarly, Academic, Peer-reviewed or Refereed
These articles are good to find results of scientific or academic research. They are written for scholars and provide in-depth analysis of a very specific area of your topic
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For a more detailed explanation and in-depth look at scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals see this guide:
For each publication, answer the following questions:
APPEARANCE - scrolling through each article, what visual differences jump out at you? At a quick glance, how does each simply "look" different?
CONTENT - what do you notice about article length, depth, vocabulary, subject matter?
AUTHORITY - can you find the author's qualifications? What are they? Do you trust them? Why?
AUDIENCE/PURPOSE - Who is this being published for? What led you to that conclusion?
Based on the evidence above, what type of source is each publication? Choose A, B or C for each publication:
Take a look at these Green River OTA students featured in OT Practice!
If you had to guess what type of periodical OT Practice is (scholarly, trade or popular), what would you guess?