What's The Difference?
What's The Difference?
What's The Difference?
The quality of these publications varies considerably and determining the quality of information in them
is easier when you can clarify the level of scholarship and the general purpose. This chart will help you
evaluate the different types of publications. Some publications may overlap across these categories.
A Harder, B. (2004, March). Worst of Two Worlds. Science News, 165(10), 149-150.
Abstract (Document Summary): Mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus in North
America are a blend of two strains that remain essentially distinct in the Old
Scholarly
journal
Trade
World, researchers report. Interbreeding may explain why the insects often bite publication
both birds and people in North America but generally only one or the other in
Europe. To understand how Culex pipiens populations are related, Dina M. General
Fonseca and her colleagues studied genetic variation in multiple populations from interest
the United States and Europe and one population from each of Australia, Japan, magazine
and Jordan.
C Arias, D. C. (2006, June). Fight the Bite teaches mosquito control, West Nile Scholarly
awareness. The Nation's Health, 36(5), 12. journal
Abstract (Document Summary): Colorado's Fight the Bite campaign to educate the Trade
public about West Nile virus prevention is proving an effective weapon there and publication
in many other states. Fight the Bite centers on a two-part solution to West Nile
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virus: reducing mosquito breeding areas and encouraging personal protection from
interest
mosquito bites.
magazine
Sidebar
When evaluating an information Popular magazines
source, keep in mind these general Articles in popular magazines are kept short, with little depth and typically
criteria and questions: written in simple language to entertain or persuade a general audience by staff
or free-lance writers. The heavy graphical format is focused on selling
reliability: Are the facts accurate? products or services.
Glamour; People Weekly; Reader's Digest; Sports Illustrated
credibility: Is the author an
authority on the topic? Sensational magazines
Carrying little authority, articles in these publications are written in an
perspective: Is the work biased or inflammatory, sensational style with very simple language. To arouse
opinionated? curiosity among a somewhat gullible audience, outrageous, startling headlines
purpose: Does this material inform, and photographs as well as melodramatic advertising are used.
Globe; National Enquirer; Star; Sun
explain, persuade?