History 4990 Senior Seminar
Scholarly Literature Review
You will search the standard guides to scholarship (JSTOR, etc.) to find that which has already been written on your chosen topic. You will submit this literature as an annotated bibliography.
For an activity to be designated as scholarship, it should manifest at least three key characteristics:
it should be public
susceptible to critical review and evaluation
and accessible for exchange and use by other members of one's scholarly community.
We thus observe
with respect to all forms of scholarship that they
are acts of mind or spirit that have been made
public in some manner, have
been subjected to peer review by members of one's intellectual or
professional community, and
can be cited, refuted, built-upon, and shared among
members of that community.
(http://www.bothell.washington.edu/library/guides/sources.html)
Scholarly Source
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Non-Scholarly Source
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Articles or books are written by a scholar or a professional in the field. | May be written by a professional writer who is not an expert in the field. |
Always cite their sources of information in the form of footnotes or bibliography. | Rarely offers information (footnotes or bibliography) about the sources of information. |
Text gives research results, includes specialized vocabulary and is aimed at a scholarly audience. | Text reports events or opinions and is aimed at a general audience (easy to read). |
Journal cover and pages tend to be plain in design, with few or no pictures or graphics. | Tend to be highly pictorial. Magazines accept advertising. |
Most are published by professional organizations, associations, scholarly groups or universities and colleges. | Are generally published for profit. May be intended as a vehicle of opinion: political, moral, or ethnic. |
Authors are always named, and their institutional affiliation is given. | Authors may be anonymous. |
Journal issues are likely to be successively numbered (for example, issue 1 includes pages 1-356, issue 2 has pages 357-585, etc.) | Magazine issues are likely to begin with page 1. |
Articles may be long. | Articles may be short, some only 1-2 pages. |
Journal issues tend to be published less often (monthly, quarterly, semi-annually). | Magazine issues tend to be published more frequently (monthly, weekly, daily). |
Journals would usually be found in a library or in a professor's office. | Magazines can be found at any bookstore or convenience store. |
Examples: Articles in Journal of American History, Journal of Educational Psychology or books published by a University Press written by a scholar with footnotes. | Examples: Articles in Newsweek, National Review or books published by Scribner written by a journalist or professional writer without footnotes. |
(http://www.stchas.edu/library/scholar.shtml)