Sooo I made it to lecture half an hour late this week thanks to the massive jam at my suburb. Sighs. Ended up missing my train and I had to wait 20mins for the next train. Sometimes it sucks to stay so far from school.

Alright, but I managed to jot down a few points that I thought was interesting, just mainly because in the last semester I was researching on this as well!.

So we discussed about the difference between Peer-reviewed (Research from the library, databases, etc) and Journalistic (Qualified blogs, Newspapers, etc)

This website gave a very simple and easy way to differentiate the two. Basically..

Peer-Reviewed articles :  published after getting the approval from the specialist of that subject.

Journalistic : written by journalist and reviewed by the magazine/newspaper editors

In my opinion, especially after starting university and having to do massive amounts of essays, I find myself gravitating towards academic peer reviewed sources for information, which heading towards journalistic articles to give me an overview of the topic i’m on.

If I were to rank their credibility, I would go for peer-reviewed articles, just because I feel that their sources and more well credible and trustworthy. After all, having those articles reviewed by experts in that field has to mean something!

Credits : Giphy