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EDU 626: Teacher Leadership Through Research/Capstone Research Project

This LibGuide provides research resources to help EDU 626 students as they embark on their action research proposal and capstone research project.

Why do you need scholarly articles?

Scholarly or Peer-Reviewed journals contain literature that is written by experts in a particular field of study. 

The articles often contain reports on original research studies, literature reviews and more. 

Such articles are essential when writing for undergraduate courses, dissertations, thesis, grant proposals, etc.

Using scholarly research for your papers or speeches provides the backing of experts, which can make your argument stronger.

Article Sources

ARTICLE
SOURCE
 
Scholarly
Journals
 
Newspapers
 
Trade or Professional Journals
 
Popular Magazines
                 
PURPOSE   Use for in-depth, original research findings, and peer-reviewed research articles.   Use for current events topics or editorials and opinions dealing with current events.   Offers specialized industry or professional articles that tend to be more practical and applied in nature.   For the general interest reader—these articles are used to inform or entertain.
                 

Try Some of These Databases

 

 

EBSCO

JSTOR

ProQuest

 

Lexis/Nexis

Newspaper Source

New York Times

 

EBSCO

Business Source Premier

 

EBSCO

ProQuest

Google

 

Evaluate Article Resources

Unsure of how to tell if a journal article is scholarly/peer-reviewed or popular/trade?  Open the file below to see a list of common characteristics of both types of articles.