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Popular Sources |
Scholarly Sources |
Description |
Written for a general audience, often broader scope |
Written by experts for an expert audience, often a very narrow scope |
Examples |
The Washington Post, The New Yorker |
Journal for the History of Rhetoric, Indonesian Journal Of Applied Linguistics |
Remember that the difference between "popular" and "scholarly" sources is not "bad sources" versus "good sources"! Different sources can be good for different information needs.