3 Scholarly Sources + Peer Review

You might come across requests to use “scholarly” or “peer reviewed” sources in research assignments, but what do those terms mean exactly?

This video by Professor McClanan overviews these two terms:

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More about Scholarly Sources + Peer Review

This module discusses the meaning of the terms scholarly as well as the more specific designation, peer reviewed.

Scholarly Sources

For a review of what “scholarly sources” means, take a look at this overview:

Organizing Research for Arts and Humanities Papers and Theses: What are Scholarly and Non-Scholarly Sources (from the USC Library)

Peer Review

If you’d like to learn more about what peer review is, consider reviewing these resources:

Evaluating Information Sources: What Is A Peer-Reviewed Article? (from the John Jay College Library)

 

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