What a fun day it was today in class! This time, we focused on different types of periodic and how they appeal to the consumer. The different kinds of category allows people to easily search for what they are looking for. We learned the difference between Popular magazines, Scholarly and trade professional magazines.
b) The difference between the three is that:
1. Popular magazines involved current news, newest trends, general interest, etc
2. Scholarly focuses primarily on research articles, novels, books, all involving some form and purpose for educative development.
3. Professional trade magazines tend to show information about the business world, company information's, new products and all involving business factors.
c) Print forms, they are written years before and then published over time. Unfortunately, finding the current articles about these forms are difficult to find. The electronic forms are not necessarily better, but they do tend to have more current information, since more people are using the Internet. And the unfortunate factor about that is one would have to use a good database in order to find articles.
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I'm glad you had fun - and learned something, too!
You're right when you say that electronic forms are not necessarily better. It's all in evaluating the information regardless of its form.
They tend to have more current information, it's true, but it's not because more people are using the Web. It's because its faster to put material in electronic form that it is to go through the long process of getting the material into print.
Nowadays, it is more common to need a good database to search for articles, although the tools are designed to search for the full text in whatever form it comes.
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