Faculty often tell students to use Scholarly rather than Popular articles for research and papers. Scholarly articles are also called peer reviewed or refereed or academic articles and are found in journals, not magazines or newspapers.
How can you tell the difference between a scholarly and a popular or trade magazine? Check out the anatomy of a scholarly article box below o help you identify the key elements of a scholarly article.
There are some articles which don’t fall clearly into any one category. You will need to use your judgment—and the clues from this Guide—to determine which kind of publication or article you are dealing with.
Reminder: The ACCORD model is designed to help you make informed decisions about what sources to include in your academic work. Not every source has to PASS every criteria to be included in your work. For example, you might not be able to determine the Oversight of a website but you are confident in the Agenda, Credentials and Citations criteria so you decide to use it as a source. You as the researcher have to make those decisions based on weighing all of the criteria against each other!
Things to keep in mind when figuring out if your info is credible:
