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Ashleys Assignment
Ashley, a first year student in FAH, has an Assignment Due in two weeks. She has to write a 5-7 page paper on violence in video games and how it affects children. She needs to use at least 3 scholarly sources in her paper.
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A scholarly article or book is generally based on original research or experimentation. It is written by a researcher or expert in the field who is often affiliated with a college or university.
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Journal-Scholarly
Magazine-Popular
Content Author
Secondary report or discussion may include personal narrative, opinion, anecdotes. Author may or may not be named; often a professional writer; may or may not have subject expertise. General public; the interested nonspecialist.
Author's credentials are given, usually a scholar with subject expertise. Scholars, researchers, students.
Audience
Language
References/Biblio graphy Examples
Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Almost anything with Journal in the title. Usually come with memberships in scholarly societies and are only available in libraries.
And, of course, its important to use scholarly sources because your instructor told you to!
How Would Ashley Find Articles on Violence in Video Games and How it Affects Children?
Although the library at UMAC is great for finding books, it does not have journal articles on specific topics.
The library does have access to hundreds of databases for article searching.
Choose the subject that most closely matches your topic, and then narrow your selection.
Choose a database!
How Will Ashley Pick the Best Database for Her Topic?
Choose a database from the list. Try some searches on your topic.
We recommend trying a couple of different databases. They will all have different results.
You can decide if the article is useful by reading the abstract and not the entire article!
Good Luck!
Finding scholarly
ask a librarian!
Homework
Find one scholarly article for your topic.
Monday.