Scholarly Article Checklist
While sources are always a good indication of an article's reputability — for example, an article from Time will differ significantly than one from Mass Media Ethics — this checklist will help you to make this determination. An article with all or most of these components, and that is peer-reviewed, is considered "scholarly" by those in academia and in the field.
While not all articles may contain every component below, a scholarly article will contain most of them. With some practice you'll be able to distinguish the difference between popular articles and those better suited for scholarly use.
| What is an Abstract and what does it look like? | |
| See an an example of different reference pages. | |
| Take a look at an article's formal sections. | |
| What does it mean for a journal to be peer-reviewed? How will I know? |
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