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BWRIT 135: Research Writing (Simpkins): Scholarly Articles & Library Databases

Subject-Specific Databases - Find articles in databases covering specific subject areas

Find more databases in our subject research guides!

Multidisciplinary Databases - Find scholarly, news, and popular articles covering many subjects

These databases will help you find citations for, or even the full text of, articles published in journals, magazines, and newspapers. These articles can be longer in length and scholarly (research articles and reports), or somewhat shorter (news briefs or book reviews).

Interrogate your sources

What do you know about the author?

From what discipline/field of knowledge is the source? Does the source define and use a specific theoretical or conceptual frame?

What’s the main claim? What are some subclaims?

Are you finding any keywords that you can use in future searches? Record them somewhere!

Who is its audience and what is the source trying to convince that audience to think?

What evidence is the author using? Does the evidence for this argument come from a reading of a text? A sociological survey? An anthropological ethnography? Statistical analysis? Analysis of a business? Mathematical evidence? A scientific experiment? Other?

Anatomy of a scholarly article

Peer Review

Evaluate your sources

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