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Table
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What are
the major differences between magazine and journal articles? Examine
some and come to your own conclusions!
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Many periodicals (journals,
magazines, and newspapers) maintain Web sites. If you subscribe
(i.e., pay a fee), you can read everything posted there. The sites
usually offer some of their articles free, most often those
from the current issue.*
Go to each of the
resources linked below. (Since these are commercial sites,
going to the sites may activate an advertisement or gimmick of
some sort. If that happens, just click the x box in the top right
of the pop-up window to make it go away.)
Scan some articles.
Ask yourself: Is this written for the general public, or is this
written for scholars in the field? Are the authors reporting what
they discovered through their own scientific research, or are
authors rewriting and summarizing information from a variety of
sources? Do the articles tell the reader where the information
came from (i.e., do the articles close with footnotes or lists
of references)?
- American
Psychologist You can click to see the Table of Contents
for the current issue (some articles are available there), and
there are selected other articles listed.
- Atlantic
Click on Current Issue (over on left; towards the top of the
left hand column)
- JAMA
Click on Current Issue (under the banner JAMA), and look at
one or two articles.
- Signs
-- Look where it says "Browse the latest issue" and
click there.
- Washington
Monthly Click on Table of Contents (sort of in the center,
towards the top)
- Wired
Look at some current
or recent articles.
*The full contents of
many periodicals are also in databases made available by libraries
(yours included!); we'll introduce these databases to you later.
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