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Nutrition and Food Science Research: Identifying Scholarly Articles

Nutrition and Food Science consists of learning about nutrition and the science of food, including; food systems, sustainability, and global and national food policy.

What to know about scholarly articles

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In academic research and writing it is critical to understand the type of resources you need to help build your argument and support your research question or thesis statement. This section will help you to identify the differences between scholarly and popular articles, as well as how to read scholarly articles.

scholarly v. popular articles

The following video will layout how to tell the difference between scholarly articles (sometimes called: academic articles or peer reviewed articles) and popular magazines.