Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Popular vs Scholarly Journal Articles

For our IM 204 class we where asked to find a popular magazine article and a scholarly journal article about the population we are searching for (mine being of course alcoholics/ism) and cite them using APA works format.


References

Bailly, R. C., Carman, R. S., & Forslund, M. A. (1991). Gender Differences in Drinking Motivations and Outcomes. Journal Of Psychology125(6), 649.

Study finds alcohol abuse or dependence causes depression, not vice versa. (2009). Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly21(10), 1-3.

The one which was cited first Gender Differences in Drinking Motivations and Outcomes is the scholarly journal, and the second one Study finds alcohol abuse or dependence causes depression, not vice versa was the popular magazine.  

In Gender Differences in Drinking Motivations and Outcomes the article focused on investigating gender differences in the relationship of power needs and drinking (basically men drink to show dominance and power and women drink more so to be assertive and sociable).   In the scholarly journal the article went into depth on the topic and used more of an academic language compared to that of the popular magazine article which was geared more towards presenting information in an easily understood manner for general audiences.  And Study finds alcohol abuse or dependence causes depression, not vice versa is quite self explanatory as to what it is about from the title.  The popular magazine focused more on brief non technical articles about alcoholism and drug abuse in general (because it is published weekly) so it does not contain a very specific focus on alcoholism alone.  The scholarly journal had its own research presented in the article, and contained charts to explain that information. And the scholarly journal had a list of references to credit the information it was presenting and authors who had wrote the article, while the popular magazine on the other hand had no references or authors listed  whatsoever.

3 comments:

  1. Good job with APA works cited formatting!

    It is amazing to me that the studies are showing that men drink to feel powerful...

    You have a nice article comparison here, but be careful...Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly is not a popular magazine:
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1556-7591

    Professor Wexelbaum

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  2. I was afraid it might not be but I thought since it was published weekly that it was possible that it could be one. But I do believe I found a popular magazine article from USA Today Magazine about some of the neurological effects of alcohol. That there are inhibited types of alcoholics who can possibly be hypersensitive to stress, due to a deficiency of brain chemicals similar to morphine and heroin.And the impulsive type of alcoholic which has hyperactive brain readings.

    References
    Personality Genes Could Be an Indicator. (2002). USA Today Magazine, 131(2691), 4

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  3. USA Today Magazine would definitely count as a popular magazine. I wonder where they received their information from.

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