Instruction: Exercises for FYS and Other Courses: Scholarly Articles

-Luke

• Guide to Scholarly Journals (Pierce College) - bulleted list and video, more
• Reading a Scientific Article (Universities at Shady Grove) 
• Reading Scholarly Articles (University of Dubuque)
• Reading Scholarly Articles (Seminole State) - guide on the side
• How to Read a Journal Article (Eastern Illinois University)
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Videos, Infographics, Tutorials

• How to read an academic paper
• Is my source scholarly? (& How to read, etc.)
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article (NCSU)
• Reading and Annotating Scholarly Articles (slide set)

Exercise:
1. Locate two scholarly articles (each should be from a different journal) on a designated research topic.
2. Using the video and infograph as your guide, journal about your reading of the two scholarly articles. 
Your journaling should be structured as as a 2-column table (article one in column 1, and article two in column 2). Then each row is a step (step 1: read the abstract, 2: read the conclusion, etc.). The column heading should be the article citation.
3. Compare the two articles, and summarize your experience.
(source: Lesley Farmer in MERLOT)

Peer reviewed articles (also sometimes called refereed articles or scholarly articles) require that experts in the field must first examine the article before it is accepted for publication. This ensures that the research is sound and of high quality.

Tips for finding scholarly journals and articles:

1.    Look the title up in the Ulrich's Periodicals Directory: check the Document Type field to see if it is classified as 'academic/scholarly'.

2.    Select the Peer Reviewed box in Academic Search Complete database.

3.   Ask a librarian.

An introduction to finding journal articles at the Hollins library

Your Communication 101 assignment requires you to use scholarly, or peer-reviewed, journal articles for your bibliography. What are these articles, and what makes them different from articles from magazines like Time?

The Scholarly Journal Difference

*On Peer Review: Peer reviewed articles (also sometimes called refereed articles or scholarly articles) require that experts in the field must first examine the article before it is accepted for publication. This ensures that the research is sound and of high quality.