Starting your research

Why use articles?

"Article" is a generic term to indicate a shorter length item in a larger body of work.  There are different types of articles and they deliver different types of information.  The three main types of articles are:

• Newspaper articles - for current events and opinion pieces
• Magazine (popular periodical) articles - for a general audience on a topic of general interest; not too long or complicated, assumes the reader knows nothing
• Scholarly (academic) articles - written by and for professionals about current research findings.  Assumes background knowledge and understanding of specialized vocabulary.  Often peer-reviewed. 

Good databases to start searching for articles include: