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STEP-BY-STEP DIRECTIONS FOR READING A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

Characteristics of Academic or Scholarly Journal Articles: 

• Written by experts in a specific subject field, then reviewed and intended for readership by experts in that same field 

• Provide an abstract or overview of the article and author-supplied keywords 

• Typically lengthy/ substantive 

• Published quarterly rather than weekly or monthly 

• Feature charts and graphs to support a study's methodology and procedure (no pretty images) 

• List references (sometimes several pages)