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.