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FCS 5240: Socio / Psychological Aspects of Dress

Publication Type Comparison

You will come across three main types of articles: Scholarly, Trade, and Popular. But, you need to find and use scholarly articles for FCS 5240 research assignment. You can  tell it is scholarly by several characteristics:

  • A scholar, specialist, expert wrote it
  • The intended audience is for academia
  • Has a bibliography or works cited page

Comparing 3 types of publications -

  • Scholarly: Highly reliable, use freely. Written by scholars for scholars
  • Trade: Use with caution, written by people in the industry for people in the industry 
  • Popular: Avoid, authority and reliability hard to determine. 

When doing research, you will come across three main types of articles, Scholarly, Trade, and Popular. There is a time and place for each type of article. Scholarly: Highly reliable, use freely. Written by scholars for scholars Trade: Use with caution, written by people in the industry for people in the industry Popular: Avoid, authority and reliability hard to determine.