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What is Scholarly/Academic Literature?
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Scholars function within communities and thus check one another's work.
Here's peer review in a nutshell:
- A scholar writes an article based on research.
- The manuscript is sent to an academic journal.
- The journal editor sends it a few scholars in the field in order to check its quality.
- The scholars report back with needed revisions.
- The scholar makes the revisions and the article, all going well, is published.
How can a researcher find scholarly/academic literature?
Many databases have a filter to select scholarly/academic results:
To explain this kind of literature, we need to look at who scholars are and what they do.
Thus a piece of writing is scholarly if it has been reviewed and accepted by other scholars
- Scholars have advanced degrees. This gives them authority when they write.
- Scholars use well-defined methods in their research.
- Before they can publish, their work goes through a tough process of peer review.
Peer review?
You have been told to use
only scholarly/academic sources in your research project.
Anyone can write something and put it up on the Net.
But scholars recognize that the writing with
real authority
- has to come from someone with the right education, and
- must be checked out by other scholars
before it can be released.
So what is scholarly/academic?
- Written by scholars?
- Has notes and bibliography?
- Has a lot of difficult terminology?
- Is "peer reviewed" (whatever that is?)
What about using Google Scholar?
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Scholar has "academic" results but no guarantees that they are actually scholarly:
A hoax article generated by a computer:
It's not easy being academic/scholarly
Signs of scholarship in a publication
A scholarly/peer reviewed article:
Scholarly writing has to go through a rigorous process of development:
- Careful research and writing
- Peer review
- Revision
- Publication
- Citation and discussion by other scholars
This sets it above average publications.
- Notes and reference lists
- Citation of a wide variety of sources
- Published in an established publication - journal or academic book
- Cited often by other sources - you can check this by looking up the resource on Google Scholar
When in doubt, go to the publisher's website:
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