Peer-Reviewed (Scholarly) Articles
Popular (Magazine and Newspaper) Articles
Scholarly Articles |
Popular Articles |
Scholarly articles are written by experts in the field and, additionally, reviewed by a panel experts in the field. They tend to include a lot of research and data, and the information in the article is backed up by a list of references. | Popular articles are often written by journalists for a general audience and are not reviewed by experts in the field. Popular articles rarely include references. |
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For more detailed information on what a scholarly article looks like, see the excellent tutorial Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.