Self-Guided Tutorial on Popular and Scholarly Sources

This exercise consists of a self-guided tutorial that will introduce you to the basic characteristics of scholarly sources and how to distinguish them from popular ones, and a quiz. The quiz will allow you to print or download a certificate which you can submit to prove that you have completed the tutorial.

Skills to learn in this tutorial:

• Characteristics of a scholarly article
• Distinguishing between a popular and a scholarly source
• Using the Peer Reviewed filter
• Recognizing a scholarly book
• Knowing which types of articles in peer reviewed journals are not peer reviewed