Which Article is Scholarly?

Instructions

Below are links to four articles on the topic of detective fiction. In groups of two or three, evaluate each to determine which is scholarly, which is reliable but not scholarly (peer reviewed), and which is popular.

Do not try to read the entire article. Instead, scan each article with the criteria for distinguishing scholarly from popular publications in mind.
Focus on the first and last pages of each article. Record your judgement on the print handout, along with the reason(s) why you identified an article as scholarly or popular.

For each article, download the PDF (if available) to see what the print equivalent looks like.

Articles

• “Bloody Patterns: Shades of Myth and the Limits of Reason in A Study in Scarlet”
• “The Death of Cosy Christie: Directors are Taking Agatha Christie to Increasingly Dark Places—And About Time too”
• “G. K. Chesterton: Master of Rejuvenation”
• “A Matter of Disguise: Locating the Self in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye”
• “ Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction”
• “The Detective Crime Story: 1880–1945”