{"id":1603,"date":"2022-05-11T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1603"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:24:23","slug":"characteristics-of-popular-and-scholarly-writing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/chapter\/characteristics-of-popular-and-scholarly-writing\/","title":{"raw":"Characteristics of Popular and Scholarly Writing","rendered":"Characteristics of Popular and Scholarly Writing"},"content":{"raw":"These are common types of sources you are likely to come across during your information searches:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn the sea of information we want to choose information that is reliable and [pb_glossary id=\"1654\"]credible[\/pb_glossary]. That means, information published by well known sources accepted by the scholarly community written by knowledgeable authors. Here are some examples of popular and scholarly writing sources you may come across during your information searches. Understanding and identifying popular writing helps you evaluate sources to determine if they're appropriate to include in your paper or project.\r\n<h3><strong>Popular<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nScientific discoveries are reported to people through both popular and scholarly writing. Popular publications (also called consumer publications) aim to inform readers about issues of common interest to the general public. Examples of popular writing which many of you are familiar with include publications such as the Vancouver Sun and Maclean's.\r\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<strong>Purpose:<\/strong> Inform, entertain, sell products, or promote a viewpoint\r\n\r\n<strong>Audience:<\/strong> General public\r\n\r\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Journalists who may or may not have subject expertise\r\n\r\n<strong>Content:<\/strong> Simple and non-technical language; many graphics, photographs, and illustrations; rarely cites other sources; submitted articles are only reviewed by the editor of the publication\r\n<h3><strong>Popular Science<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nPopular science magazines are simply popular publications targeted at readers who are interested in science.\r\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Science Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\r\nPopular science magazines and articles share the same characteristics as general magazines except for these differences:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audience is the general public interested in scientific stories.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">They're written by journalists who often have subject expertise.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The language may be more technical than that used in newspapers and other popular magazines.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Examples<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/\">Discover<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\">Scientific American<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Scholarly Writing<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nYou will be expected to include scholarly sources in your writing for this course and others in your program. A scholarly publication contains articles written by experts in a particular field of study. The principal readers of these articles are other experts and students. As a result, the articles are typically more advanced than ones found in popular magazines. Rather than calling this kind of publication a magazine, we commonly use the term journal. Journals are a very important part of the process by which scholars communicate. Scientists rely on journals to [pb_glossary id=\"1664\"]disseminate[\/pb_glossary] the results of their experiments and to find out about other research in their field of study.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1675 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-300x300.png\" alt=\"Icon of three stacked papers with two blocks text and two rectangles at the top symbolizing images.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Exercise<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n\r\n<strong>Activity:<\/strong> Explore one of the following websites. Look at the Table of Contents of an issue to see how the articles differ from popular writing. Can you get to the full text of an actual article?\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/\">Nature<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\">Science<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/trends-in-cell-biology\">Trends in cell biology<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Scholarly Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The main purpose is to report on original research, experimentation, methodology, and theory.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"1340\"]Audience[\/pb_glossary] includes professors, researchers, college and university students.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assume readers have an understanding of the topic (either basic or advanced, depending on the level of the journal).<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often contains charts, graphs and tables.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always cites sources in bibliographies or footnotes.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Written by scholars or researchers in the field.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uses the specialized language of the discipline.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by other experts in the field (known as PEER REVIEWED or REFEREED publications).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h1>Adaptations<\/h1>\r\nMaterial in this section has been adapted from from <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.ubc.ca\/tutorial-lfs\/home\">Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems<\/a> by Katherine Miller, Sally Taylor, Katherine Kalsbeek, Suzan Zagar, Megan Brown, Maggie Fabber, licensed under a <a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>.","rendered":"<p>These are common types of sources you are likely to come across during your information searches:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg 838w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2-65x29.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2-225x100.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/libguides_typesofsources_2-350x156.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the sea of information we want to choose information that is reliable and <a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_1603_1654\">credible<\/a>. That means, information published by well known sources accepted by the scholarly community written by knowledgeable authors. Here are some examples of popular and scholarly writing sources you may come across during your information searches. Understanding and identifying popular writing helps you evaluate sources to determine if they&#8217;re appropriate to include in your paper or project.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Popular<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Scientific discoveries are reported to people through both popular and scholarly writing. Popular publications (also called consumer publications) aim to inform readers about issues of common interest to the general public. Examples of popular writing which many of you are familiar with include publications such as the Vancouver Sun and Maclean&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> Inform, entertain, sell products, or promote a viewpoint<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audience:<\/strong> General public<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Journalists who may or may not have subject expertise<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content:<\/strong> Simple and non-technical language; many graphics, photographs, and illustrations; rarely cites other sources; submitted articles are only reviewed by the editor of the publication<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Popular Science<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Popular science magazines are simply popular publications targeted at readers who are interested in science.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Science Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Popular science magazines and articles share the same characteristics as general magazines except for these differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audience is the general public interested in scientific stories.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">They&#8217;re written by journalists who often have subject expertise.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The language may be more technical than that used in newspapers and other popular magazines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/\">Discover<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\">Scientific American<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Scholarly Writing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You will be expected to include scholarly sources in your writing for this course and others in your program. A scholarly publication contains articles written by experts in a particular field of study. The principal readers of these articles are other experts and students. As a result, the articles are typically more advanced than ones found in popular magazines. Rather than calling this kind of publication a magazine, we commonly use the term journal. Journals are a very important part of the process by which scholars communicate. Scientists rely on journals to <a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_1603_1664\">disseminate<\/a> the results of their experiments and to find out about other research in their field of study.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1675 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-300x300.png\" alt=\"Icon of three stacked papers with two blocks text and two rectangles at the top symbolizing images.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-225x225.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/05\/application.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Exercise<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<p><strong>Activity:<\/strong> Explore one of the following websites. Look at the Table of Contents of an issue to see how the articles differ from popular writing. Can you get to the full text of an actual article?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/\">Nature<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\">Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/trends-in-cell-biology\">Trends in cell biology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5><strong>Characteristics of Popular Scholarly Writing<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The main purpose is to report on original research, experimentation, methodology, and theory.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_1603_1340\">Audience<\/a> includes professors, researchers, college and university students.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assume readers have an understanding of the topic (either basic or advanced, depending on the level of the journal).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often contains charts, graphs and tables.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always cites sources in bibliographies or footnotes.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Written by scholars or researchers in the field.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uses the specialized language of the discipline.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by other experts in the field (known as PEER REVIEWED or REFEREED publications).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Adaptations<\/h1>\n<p>Material in this section has been adapted from from <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.ubc.ca\/tutorial-lfs\/home\">Library Research Skills for Land and Food Systems<\/a> by Katherine Miller, Sally Taylor, Katherine Kalsbeek, Suzan Zagar, Megan Brown, Maggie Fabber, licensed under a <a class=\"internal\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attributions clear\" prefix:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" prefix:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\"><h2>Media Attributions<\/h2><ul><li about=\"https:\/\/libapps-ca.s3.amazonaws.com\/accounts\/23414\/images\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/libapps-ca.s3.amazonaws.com\/accounts\/23414\/images\/libguides_typesofsources_2.jpg\" property=\"dc:title\">Types of Sources<\/a>  &copy;  Toronto Metropolitan University    is licensed under a  <a rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY (Attribution)<\/a> license<\/li><li about=\"https:\/\/www.flaticon.com\/free-icon\/application_2680919?term=journal%20article&page=1&position=2&page=1&position=2&related_id=2680919&origin=search\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flaticon.com\/free-icon\/application_2680919?term=journal%20article&page=1&position=2&page=1&position=2&related_id=2680919&origin=search\" property=\"dc:title\">application<\/a>  &copy;  <a rel=\"dc:creator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flaticon.com\/authors\/freepik\" property=\"cc:attributionName\">Freepik<\/a>    is licensed under a  <a rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY (Attribution)<\/a> license<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"glossary\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\" id=\"definition\">definition<\/span><template id=\"term_1603_1654\"><div class=\"glossary__definition\" role=\"dialog\" data-id=\"term_1603_1654\"><div tabindex=\"-1\"><p>Something that is trustworthy and reliable.<\/p>\n<\/div><button><span aria-hidden=\"true\">&times;<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close definition<\/span><\/button><\/div><\/template><template id=\"term_1603_1664\"><div class=\"glossary__definition\" role=\"dialog\" data-id=\"term_1603_1664\"><div tabindex=\"-1\"><p>To spread, share, or disperse information.<\/p>\n<\/div><button><span aria-hidden=\"true\">&times;<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close definition<\/span><\/button><\/div><\/template><template id=\"term_1603_1340\"><div class=\"glossary__definition\" role=\"dialog\" data-id=\"term_1603_1340\"><div tabindex=\"-1\"><p>When you\u2019re writing, it\u2019s easy to forget that you are actually writing to someone. Whether you\u2019ve thought about it consciously or not, you always write to an audience: sometimes your audience is a very generalized group of readers, sometimes you know the individuals who compose the audience, and sometimes you write for yourself. Keeping your audience in mind while you write can help you make good decisions about what material to include, how to organize your ideas, and how best to support your argument. 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