{"id":47,"date":"2017-08-28T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/aboutwriting\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=47"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:22:57","slug":"a-deeper-look-at-scholarly-sources","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eng-102\/chapter\/a-deeper-look-at-scholarly-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deeper Look at Scholarly Sources"},"content":{"raw":"Scholarly sources are different from what most of us read each day. We are constantly exposed to \"popular\" media - news websites, TV channels, magazines and newspapers. It is generally only in college that we get exposure \u00a0- and access \u00a0- to scholarly articles and books.\r\n<div class=\"is-this-source-scholarly?\">\r\n\r\nA scholarly source is any material that\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>has been produced by an expert in his or her field (often this means people with Ph.D's who work as researchers or professors at colleges or universities), and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>has been rigorously reviewed by other experts in that same field, and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>has been published for an audience also highly involved in that field (often other people who have Ph.D.s in the same academic discipline).<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nA source is said to be <strong>scholarly<\/strong> if the following are true:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The source is <strong>written with formal language<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Information is presented in a <strong>formal, highly prescribed format<\/strong> (scholarly articles tend to follow a similar layout, pattern, and style)\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Scholarly sources contain Literature Reviews, which help to contextualize the author's research. 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We are constantly exposed to &#8220;popular&#8221; media &#8211; news websites, TV channels, magazines and newspapers. 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