In-Class Assignment
Which Article is Scholarly?
Instructions
Below are links to four articles on the topic of reading and empathy. 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.
Articles
- “How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy?”
- “Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy’
- “Does Fiction Reading Make you a Better Person?”
- “Development of Empathetic Responses with Multicultural Literature”
Download the PDF to see what the print equivalent looks like.
Materials
created by: Colin Deinhardt & Agatha Barc | updated: 4 March 2019