| |
Popular Magazines
|
Scholarly
Journals
|
| Purpose |
To provide
general information or to entertain |
To report
on original research/in-depth studies on specialized
subjects |
| Language |
Appropriate
for a broad, general audience |
Technical
language, jargon of the discipline, appropriate
for scholars |
| Appearance |
Include
advertising
Include photographs
|
Contain
little advertising
May contain charts and graphs, but usually
no photographs
|
| Documentation |
Sources may
be mentioned, but rarely fully cited or included
in bibliographies |
Sources are
cited in footnotes or bibliographies |
| Authors |
Magazine staff,
free-lance writers, reporters |
Scholars or
researchers in the field |
| Peer-Reviewed |
No |
Yes - often
reviewed by the author's peers before publication |
| Publishing
Schedule |
Usually weekly,
bi-weekly, or monthly |
Quarterly,
twice a year, or less |
| Indexing |
Usually indexed
in such sources as Reader's Guide to Periodical
Literature |
Usually indexed
in such sources as ERIC, Psychological Abstracts,
Medline |
| Examples |
Sports
Illustrated, Time, U.S. News & World Report,
Psychology Today |
Political
Quarterly, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal
of Applied Social Psychology |
