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FSHN 389 Nutrition Assessment

Nutrition Assessment

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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article -North Carolina State University Libraries

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Comparing Scholarly Articles and Popular, Professional and Trade Sources

Scholarly	Popular, Professional and Trade
Always includes author names and institutional affiliations	Names are sometimes included, but are often anonymous staff writers
Always includes citations or footnotes	Seldom include citations or footnotes
Reports on experiments or other original research to make the results available to the scholarly community; sometimes literature reviews	Articles for the general public or for professionals in a specific industry about relevant trends and issues
Generally includes sections for introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion	Articles are generally short
Uses technical or specialized vocabulary	Written using vocabulary relevant to the publication's audience
Little or no advertising	Advertising that relates to the audience of the publication
Peer-reviewed before publication	Not reviewed by outside scholars