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EN 102B - Norton: Scholarly v Popular

Scholarly vs. Popular sources

In your EN 101 class you focused on finding and evaluating popular sources, now in EN 102 you need to use the databases to locate scholarly articles for your upcoming assignment.  Below is information on the difference between popular and scholarly articles and the different information creation times for both source types. 

Popular vs Scholarly video

This video is included in the EN 101 second library instruction module and will be reviewed in EN 102. 

Scholarly vs Popular Sources

Scholarly publication timeline

Popular publication timeline

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