| If your professor says you
need to find scholarly information for
your paper, you should choose a journal rather
than a popular magazine. Journals are geared
toward experts and researchers in the academic
or professional community. An editorial board of
respected scholars reviews all articles
submitted to a journal. They decide if the
article provides a noteworthy contribution to
the field and should be published.
Magazines -- such as Harpers, Scientific
American and The New Republic --
are also good sources of information for your
paper. They are geared towards readers who,
although not experts, are knowledgeable about
the issues presented. Articles in these sources
are generally more in-depth but still fairly
easy to understand.
Popular magazines like People, Sports
Illustrated and Rolling Stone are
probably not the best sources to use to find
articles for research.
Here are two sample citations related to the
Internet-related issue you chose:
- Magazine Article:
- Anonymous. "Building a great wall in
cyberspace" Newsweek 135:6
(February 7,2000) p49.
- Journal Article:
- Strossen, Nadine. "Freedom of speech."
Media Studies Journal 14:1 (Winter
2000) p26-35.
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