Popular
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Trade/Professional
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Scholarly and Peer Reviewed
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audience
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audience
- professionals/experts in the field
- general public
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audience
- professionals/experts
- scholars and students in the field
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content
- reports events, opinions, or summarizes/simplifies scholarly findings
- no citations
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content
- reports scholarly findings
- written for educated audience familiar with subject
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content
- reports primary research
or scholarly findings
- usually includes literature review
- includes citations/bibliographies
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author(s)
- staff writers or no author listed
- not subject experts
- paid per article
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author(s)
- professionals that work in the field
- write to relay pertinent information to people in the field
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author(s)
- professionals in the field, scholars, or professors
- write to relay pertinent information to people in the field or other scholars
- not employed by the journal they're writing for
- usually not paid for their article
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editorial policy
- stories are assigned to writers
- stories are reviewed by one or more editors
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editorial policy
- mix of assignments and independent work
- magazine editor
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editorial policy
- articles are submitted to editorial board or outside
scholars who review and/or verify the veracity of the content/research in the articles
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