SOCI 4630 - Senior Seminar - WALSH

Now What?  review the sections on Types of Articles and Finding Online Article--we will discuss these in more detail in the face-to-face class and have some time for hands-on practice!

• In the Comparison Table you used in the Types of Periodicals assignment, the Scholarly Journals column mainly describes Research Articles.  However, there are several other kinds of articles that commonly appear in scholarly journals that you should be aware of:

• Review Articles
• News Articles
• Book Reviews
• Editorials or Letters to the Editor

• In printed issues of Scholarly Journals, these various types of articles are bound together between two covers and tend to relate to a specific topic or field of study; in online databases, these articles are separated from each other so it isn't as easy to get a sense of the full range of items found in these publications. 

• So, first we will look at Research Articles, and how they look in print; then we will look at examples of the other types so you know what to expect when you start searching online.

Here are some tips for reading academic articles:

• http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/instructors/How_to_Read_a_Journal_Article.pdf  (social science journal articles)
  • try this video walkthrough
  • Learn more about ICPSR 
    • Need a place to share your data? check out openICPSR
• other tips for reading academic articles:
  • http://jpellegrino.com/teaching/writing/readinganacademicarticle.html
  • http://www.austincollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/How-to-Read-An-Academic-Artcile.pdf

Do you still have questions about where to search and which sources to select?  Contact me at rbaker@georgiasouthern.edu  or make an appointment.  I am here to help you!