Choose any topic you would like (it can be the same as your problem or different). Compare an article in a scholarly journal with an article on the same topic in a popular magazine. Make a table or chart identifying your comparison points.

Choose any topic you would like (it can be the same as your problem or different). Compare an article in a scholarly journal with an article on the same topic in a popular magazine. Make a table or chart identifying your comparison points.

Points to compare might include:

• Tone
• Topic
• Author(s)
• Audience
• Publisher
• Format/design
• Language/focus
• Citations
• Reviewers

Make sure you identify why information in a scholarly journal article is more likely to be more reliable information than that in a popular magazine.

Length: 3-5 pages, not including your title and reference page