Scholarly journal articles are basically academic information revolving significant information. Usually, these articles are written by scholars that have been working with the field; and being published by professional organizations. Scholarly journals tend to have straight facts, summaries, and charts but have the lack of appealing pages and exhilarating pictures. The true purpose of a scholarly journal is that information on original research or testing in order to make information obtainable to the academic area (scholarly).
Websites are different from scholarly articles. Websites also known as World Wide Web, have a variety of different unique types on how the pages are formed. Some websites allow individuals to comment and give feedback to their beliefs. Websites tend to have vivid images with fascinating layouts. Also, it is easy to find information by typing in the desired question in a search engine and it will give you relevant websites. In today’s society, websites are one of the most convenient ways to obtain information at home, office, school, and more.
When I was researching a specific topic for my interest, I visited some relevant websites regarding to my topic. The first website I came to is Wikipedia. Wikipedia had all the basic significant information anyone could ever asked. As I skim through the pages of information, I notice there were some errors in the site because it didn’t make sense and it seems as if it was a joke. It was pretty obvious to me that someone came on wiki and corrupted some of the information. My teachers were corrected about wiki having inaccurate information. So then on, I never used wiki for any of my academic research papers, but instead, I used published academic articles as my source.
There are quite a few differences between a scholarly journal article and a website. The difference on scholarly journal article compared to a website is that scholarly articles have information that is truly accurate, every bit of information is significant and not irrelevant, and having precise statistics to show results. The website on the other hand have quick and easy finding on topics, the English language is mainly basic compare to scholarly articles which have complex wording, the layout is magnificent(in most cases) and have pictures that can range from useful to mind boggling when the article does not have such high creativity. These are just some of the differences between scholarly journal articles and websites. The question is fair because people need to know how scholarly journal articles benefit and how websites are beneficial to finding useful knowledge and glorious information.
"Scholarly" www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill20. visited on April 27, 2009
Overall, you summarize some of the main characteristics of website and journal articles - good!
ReplyDeleteYes, scholarly journal articles usually document original research, which may involve the use of facts and statistics, as well as summaries of past research, but I would hesitate to say that they "tend to have straight facts, summaries and charts." Research is about asking new questions - if you are looking for facts/summaries, the internet or reference sources are a better bet.
You are rather hard on Wikipedia - it's a good place to start research and get a little background information on a topic. Yes, you can't use it in a research paper, but it can refer you to credible sources like any other encyclopedia.
Scholarly articles can be accurate, but they can also be wrong, because of faulty methodology & conclusions - just be aware that while you aren't like to encounter obvious factual errors, bias and larger problems still creep in.
This essay would be stronger with a more thorough examination of the nature of websites. Try to answer the following questions: How do different formats manifest themselves online and does the process used to create the information in those formats change when online or in print? In what contexts would you use websites or journal articles? Can journals be websites and vice versa? How does that work?
What we're looking for is an awareness of the unique nature of different formats of information and how the process that creates them affects the type of information they provide - as well as a recognition of websites as both formats and a medium for other formats. How is the question we asked unfair? (it really is, a least a bit, it makes some questionable assumptions). Additional detailed examples help. You've made a good start!
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Journal v. Website Essay Scoring Rubric
The student understands the nature and characteristics of journals and website: Proficient
The student applies this understanding to concrete real world examples: Basic
The student recognizes and addresses the complexity and problems within the question: Insufficient