PHSC 110: Physical Science
for Elementary Teachers

Recommended Journals | Article Databases | Popular -v- Scholarly
Citation Information | Avoiding Plagiarism

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Recommended Journals at Benner

Scholarly	Popular
American Journal of Education Print: 1979 - current Fulltext 1996-1 year ago in Education Research Complete	Scientific American (1998-present) Print: 1948-Current Fulltext 1998-present in Academic Search Premier
Physics Teacher Print: 1963-Current Fulltext 1963 - present in EJS
Physics Today Print: 3 years - current Fulltext 1975 - 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier
Science(Washington D.C.) Print: 1943 - current Fulltext 1988-2005 in ProQuest Education Journals
Journal of Science Teacher Education Print: No print Fulltext 1997 - 1 year ago in Education Research Complete
Science and Children Print: 1963 - present Fulltext 1997 - present in ProQuest Education Journals
Science Teacher Print: Feb 1953 - Dec 1991; Jan 1993 - present Fulltext 1989 - present in ProQuest Education Journals

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Article Databases

Use the links below to search for scholarly articles in education and science in our subscription databases.

Discipline and Description	Recommended Databases
Education: The premier database for education	ERIC (FirstSearch)
Professional development articles for teachers.	Professional Development Collection
500+ full-text education journals.	ProQuest Education Journals
Chemistry: Access to over 30 ACS journals.	American Chemical Society
Engineering	ScienceDirect
Health Care: Covers nursing care, patient advice, clinical information, health.	Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Abstracted articles from medical journals.	Medline
Physical Education: Articles on sports medicine, kinesiology, recreation, fitness, sports equipment, etc.	Physical Education Index

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Popular -v- Scholarly Sources

The most important differences are indicated in italic.

	Scholarly Sources		Popular Sources
Appearance	Mostly text with some figures and tables		May have advertisements Colorful
Audience	Scholars, students, practitioners		Lay people
Author	Scholars, researchers, practitioners (i.e. doctors) Experts in their field!		Usually journalists
Editorial process	Peer Review process (explanation)		Professional editor reviews article
Structure	Articles have an extensive bibliography with complete references Signed articles Methods & results sections (tutorial on understanding the parts of a scholarly article)		May have incomplete references in body of text May have signed articles
Samples	American Journal of Education Science (Washington D.C.)		Newsweek Scientific American US News & World Report

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Citation Information

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) has excellent resources to describe these citation styles

• APA - preferred style for Professor Skalac's assignment
• MLA

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Avoiding Plagiarism

• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Indiana University)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University): contains exercises and definition of "common knowledge"

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