What is a scholarly article?
News Sources
Source Requirements
Remember for this assignment you are required to find the following as a minimum to contribute to your Team Project:
- 2 new sociological sources (published in the last 10 years)
- 2 new semi-scholarly sources (published in the last 2 years)
- 2 new data sources (at least one of which is a map, graph, chart, image used as a slide in the Power Point presentation)
("new" meaning NOT used for previous course work)
Evaluating Resources
In-Class Activity
Look at each of the articles linked below. With your group, determine if the following apply to each article:
- Scholarly (Is the journal peer-reviewed? Is it at least 5 pages? Does it cite other sources? Is it an article instead of an opinion piece or review?)
- Sociological (If it is scholarly, then does the author have a degree in sociology or a related field? Is the journal published by the ASA? Does the journal have sociology in the title?)
- Could I use this article as one of my 6 required sources? (scholarly/semi-secholarly/data)