Scholarly Articles vs. Non-Scholarly Articles

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When I first started my writing courses, I learned about the difference between scholarly articles and non-scholarly articles. Both Articles have the same information about Alcohol. The difference between the two articles shows if the article is real as well as which quotes are from other people that relates to the articles. The two articles that I will be using are from WebMD and Journal of American College Health. Both of the articles were about the differences of college students typical drinking and celebrating drinking. Typical drinking is when a person has no reason for drinking and celebrating drinking is when a person drinks for a special occasions. The two articles have many similar topics; however, the two articles have different ways of discussion opinions, facts and information that can be either weak or strong. The article can be weak or strong because it depends on the way the writer supports their information and how they do it.

In the first article, which is WebMD is a non-scholarly article. The reason why it is not a scholarly article is because the article does not start with an abstract. An abstract is basically a hypothesis about the experiment that is based on the topic. The WebMD article talks about the differences between typical drinking and celebrative drinking. The article used information from different areas that gave the statistics of celebrating drinking compare to typical drinking. The article’s evidence is strong because the writer has plenty of examples to back some of the information up WebMD article The WebMD is a website based on other people opinion and not by facts. WebMD based their information on other people quotes for example; Larry Hembroff stated in this website that “We found that ma...

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...olarly article because it from a peer reviewed journal which that it is not stolen from the scholar. Plus, using the scholarly article may have better information to use as examples. As I stated in previous paragraphs, the articles may have a similar topic which was difference between typical drinking and celebrating drinking; however, both articles have different writing styles. The difference types of articles can have the same topic but difference voices.

Works Cited

"'Celebratory Drinking' Culture on Campus." WebMD - Better Information. Better Health. Web. 20 Feb. 2011. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/news/20021105/celebratory-drinking-culture-on-campus.

Woodyard, Catherine D., and Jeffrey S. Hallam. "Differences in College Student Typical Drinking and Celebration Drinking." Journal of American College Health 58.2 (2010): 533-38. Print.

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