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Popular
Magazines
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Scholarly
Journals
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| Appearance |
Glossy paper, advertisements,
heavily illustrated, attractive in appearance
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Sober and serious, may contain
graphs or charts, will not find glossy pages or photographs
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| Audience |
General Public
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Scholars and students
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| Authors |
Reporters
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Scholars in the field
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| Documentation |
Sources sometimes cited for
news articles, but rarely
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Cite sources in footnotes
or bibliography
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| Purpose |
Provide general information
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Report on original research
or experimentation
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Article Acceptance
Procedure |
Articles written by hired
reporters, edited by magazine editors, and published
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Often undergo a "peer-reviewed"
process -- reviewed by other scholars in the field before
being published. Sometimes these journals are called "refereed
journals"
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