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Writing 120 (Fenstermaker)

Library resources for Rhetorical Theory

What to Look for in a Scholarly Article

Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly

graphic of scholarly and non-scholarly sources

from video "Scholarly vs non-scholarly sources - academic resources Research ready" (1:58) from Southern Cross University Library

Peer Review in 3 Minutes

Examples:

*Note: These citations do not showing the proper hanging indent below.

Scholarly Article - peer-reviewed journal article

Devereaux, Johanna. “A Paradise Within? Mary Astell, Sarah Scott and the Limits of Utopia.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, Mar. 2009, pp. 53–67. CrossRef, doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00120.x

Popular Article - magazine article  

Rothman, Lily. “Henry Louis Gates Jr.” TIME Magazine, vol. 190, no. 20, Nov. 2017, p. 68. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=126019089&site=ehost-live.

Scholarly/Academic Source - encyclopedia article (NOT considered a journal article)

Sowaal, Alice. “Mary Astell.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2015. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2015/entries/astell/.