SOCI 4630 - Senior Seminar - WALSH

Editorials are not equivalent to research articles since they serve a different purpose.  They are intended to provide opinion or personal perspective on a topic but are not the product of research.  Similarly,  Letters to the Editor are often written by readers of a magazine or journal expressing an opinion on a topic. They may be scholars or researchers  but their letters and editorials are NOT considered "scholarly."

You can recognize these types of articles by their:

• shorter length (compared to other articles in the journal or magazine issue), and they
• usually lack references, data or illustrations