Scholarly or popular sources, are terms used to describe a source content, its purpose, audience, appearance, citations and more.
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Academic Sources
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Popular Sources
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- Academic sources are known as scholarly sources, these sources include books, academic journals and published expert reports.
- Academic sources are known as written by experts that use technical languages and also authors will provide their academic credentials. Academic sources are peer reviewed, which means it’s been reviewed by experts on its topic for accuracy and quality before being published.
- The types of academic sources here include journals, scholarly books and published reports.
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- Popular sources are written for the general audience and they are always commercial publications.
- Popular sources do not use highly technical or specialised language in its content. The sources are probably not cited, do not include notes, no bibliographies or references.
- Examples of popular sources include magazine and newspaper.
- Popular sources are useful for getting ideas for a topic or for background or anecdotal information.
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