Review of Literacy Articles

I have chosen two articles that discuss the reading habit, but in a different context, one of academic articles and the other is a popular article. The title for academic article is “Understands the reading habits of children in Singapore”. This article is written by Shaheen Majid and Venus Tan from Nanyang Technological University. It published in Journal of Education Media and Library Sciences in 2007. The title for popular article is “Pleasurable pursuit”. This article is written by John Doraisamy and it’s taken from The Star Online. It published in 2010 as education article. Both of these articles are discussing about reading habits and reading interest among children. Using these articles I can study what the different between academic and popular articles although in same topic. In this evaluation, certain criteria had been used such as the authority of the authors, purpose of the article, the methodology been used, the data collection and analysis, the findings of the article, references that been used and the target readers. These criteria will be answered the different between these articles.

First of all, we look at the first criteria is the authority of the authors of the articles. The authors for academic articles are Shaheen Majid and Venus Tan from Nanyang Technological University. In this article, it mentions that Shaheen Majid is Associate Professor and Venus Tan is graduate student. This was published in Journal of Education Media and Library Sciences. It means that both authors are having authority to write this article. This is because in my opinion scholar journals do not choose or publish any articles or research paper from those who do not have the authority. They suppose to check every single word and e...

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... to enable readers to find other sources of available authors to produce the journal. In addition it provides authenticity and accuracy in providing information to the reader. Readers not only of ordinary readers but also researchers, lecturers, students and many others use it as a guide in a matter related. Often, popular articles are written by journalists and reporters to produce articles that are published in their publications. Readers should be wise to analyze the information provided because academic articles and popular articles have different objectives. As an example of popular articles published for an increase sales and attract readers to buy their publications and we could hardly see the author of popular articles will provide a reference in each of their articles. As such, it will be difficult for readers to get information from the original writings.