CCS/SOC 232 (Lopez) SP24

What is a Scholarly Article?

Scholarly (or Academic or Peer-Reviewed) Articles are:

• Written by experts in the subject
• Published in an academic/scholarly journal
• Peer-reviewed (checked by other experts prior to publication)

Academic/Scholarly Articles:

• Share the expert's original research
• Use technical language
• Use many in-text citations
• Include lengthy references
• Often include data, tables, charts, and graphs

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• Use quotation marks to search the exact phrase: "Chicana studies"
• Use AND to link terms in the database. For example: "Mexican American" AND "higher education" AND success combines search terms so that each search result contains all of the terms.
• Use OR to find either term; this is especially useful with synonyms. For example:  "Latina" OR "Chicana" combines terms so that results contain either of your terms.
• When using the OR command in a more complex search, place the OR'ed search terms in parentheses. For example: ("Mexican American" OR Chicana OR Latina) AND "college students". Alternately, use the Advanced Search form provided by most databases.