Last week we talked about different sources that we could use for research topics. Four sources that I remember talking about in particular last week were books, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. In newspapers and magazines you mainly find articles. Newspapers and magazines were also a more popular source than a scholarly source. Newspapers and magazines were more of a scholarly source because they are reports. Reports can be biased and told from the reporter’s perspective which can persuade you to think a certain way. On the other hand, periodicals and books are more scholarly than popular. Most time when you look at books and periodicals you see a lot of words and hardly any pictures. To most readers that are a turn off because it seems like it may be boring and uninteresting. One thing that I remember mostly about periodicals is that it had a lot of tables and charts. This shows that it is more scholarly because it actually contains proof that research has been conducted in order to write the periodical. You can use these types of research to answer questions in many different ways. For instance if I was writing a report I would probably use an article from a magazine. If I were writing a research paper I would use a more scholarly source such as a book or periodical.