What is the difference between a scholarly and popular article?

And what about fake news, and how do we know if it is fake? 
 

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Here are three examples. Which is scholarly and which is popular? What clues do you have? Which two are fake or have non-credible information. How do you know?

http://ndcproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-65356-005.html​

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2018/01/03/4-health-fads-to-start-in-2018/​

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/01/02/trying-lose-weight-here-what-latest-dieting-studies-say/w0zwPPn9jGKEBkkUpUeyPP/story.html​

These two sites provide good examples of primary v. secondary sources. 

Remember the differences! Courtesy Honolulu Community College

Primary vs. Secondary Sources: A reminder of the definitions and differences, via the Burrough of Manhattan Community College.
 

We need an empirical article. How do we know what that is?

Which of these two are empirical articles?

The Revised-Panic Screening Score for Emergency Department Patients With Noncardiac Chest Pain

Yoga as an adjunct for treatment of substance abuse

PsycARTICLES
Provides "full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists."


Use a reference database to help you understand the professional jargon in a scholarly article. 
Credo Reference
Credo Reference contains general and subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more.

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