ENG 1000 Introduction to Academic Writing - Spring 2021

Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Scholarly research articles have been through the peer-review process and are typically published in scholarly or trade journals. 

Books

• Use the Table of Contents at the front of the book to browse chapter content and the Index at the end to look up specific terms
• eBooks have an additional feature called "search within" that allows you to search the full text of the book

Websites 

• Focus on websites that have .edu, .gov, and .org domains.
• Look at the 'About' page on unfamiliar websites.  Find out who runs the website, their motivations and possible biases, and credibility of the author(s).
• Limit your results by using the limiter site:.  Example below: This search will only return results for websites that end in .gov.

Is it scholarly?

An article is typically considered scholarly if it has the following items:

• Author names and credentials
  • The author(s) list their degrees and university or research affiliations.
• Abstract
  • Summarizes the articles content.
• Methods
  • Can also appear as Methodology, Research Methods, etc. This section describes the methods used by the authors to collect data.
• Findings
  • Can also appear as Data Analysis, Analysis, Results, etc. This section analyzes the collected data.
• Conclusion
  • A summary of the findings. 
• Reference List