Conducting Research - ENGL 201 - Ibarra - Fall 2023 - Research Guides at Rio Hondo College

Popular vs. Scholarly

What are the differences between a popular magazine/newspaper article vs. a scholarly article? Review this handout to get a better understanding!

EBSCOhost (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search databases containing thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all disciplines.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Search databases containing thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all disciplines.
SIRS Issue Researcher This link opens in a new window
Analysis and opinions on the pros and cons of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Covers the pros and cons of social issues with features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text articles, statistics, document, images, and links to websites.

To learn more about and access ALL of our databases,

SEARCH TIPS

If you’re not finding anything with your chosen keywords, try searching synonyms, related words, or different forms of the same word.
When you find an article, take a look at its Subject terms or Descriptors. By clicking on a Subject term, the database will search for other similar sources.
You can also use quotation marks (" ") to specificially search a phrase. This helps to further limit your searches; for example, if you type in the words air pollution, the database will look for any result with the word air and any with the word pollution, but if you search "air pollution" the database will look for that combination of words together.
By using an asterisk ( * ), a.k.a TRUNCATION, it tells the system to search for any word that begins with the letters before the asterisk; for example, imag* tells the computer to look for image, images, imagine, imaging, etc.