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Writing: A Research Guide

This page guides you through library resources and search strategies for the WRIT 100 & 200 series

Scholarly Journal Articles

Your professors may ask you, in this class or others, to use peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles as sources in your research assignments. But what are they?

Here are some examples...take a look:

And here's what we mean by peer-reviewed:

 

Now you know what a scholarly journal article is. But how do you read one of these things? Understanding the structure of many scholarly articles can help:

 

 

What's one helpful thing you learned from either of these videos about scholarly articles or how to read them?

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