Education 3-2

In order to prepare for this assignment, view the following tutorial from the Ashford University Library:

• Scholarly and Popular Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Reflect: Good research is a combination of many types of sources. Prior to taking this course, did you understand the differences between these sources and the importance of finding one type of resource over another? 

Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts:

• Explain at least five differences between popular and scholarly sources used in research.
• Locate and summarize one peer-reviewed, scholarly source from the Ashford University Library and one popular source that pertain to your Final Argumentative Essay topic. In your summary of each article, comment on the following: biases, reliability, strengths, and limitations.
• From the sources you summarized, list and explain at least five visual cues from the peer-reviewed, scholarly source that were not evident in the popular source . 250  required.