Comparing Popular and Scholarly Publications



Comparing Popular and Scholarly Publications

Choose one magazine or journal from each of the three lists and find a current issue on the shelves on the first floor of the library.

|News and Opinion |General Interest |Scholarly Journals |

|Time |Atlantic |[here list a selection of journals you |

|The Nation |Harper’s |would like students to be familiar with] |

|National Review |Mother Jones | |

|Newsweek |New Yorker | |

|U.S. News |Utne Reader | |

Browse the contents of the three issues you have chosen and compare them by filling out the chart below.

| |News and Opinion |General Interest |Scholarly Journal |

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|Note some of the subjects covered in the issue | | | |

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|How many articles are in the issue? How long are| | | |

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| |News and Opinion |General Interest |Scholarly Journal |

|What sort of language is used in the | | | |

|publication? Select a quotation from each to | | | |

|illustrate their differences | | | |

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|Comment on layout and graphics; what kind of | | | |

|advertising is included? | | | |

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|How do authors of the articles in these | | | |

|publications refer to sources? Do they quote | | | |

|individuals or published sources? | | | |

|Other observations: | | | |

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