Non Academic Journal (Popular Magazine)

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the periodicals you have found on our class topic. Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may need to do some additional research:

1. First, write the name of the site and the full reference here (you will use this when you write your Research Paper Bibliography and the Annotated Bibliography. Do it correctly using MLA style).

Robert, J Samuelson."Technology In Reverse".Newsweek,Jul 20,1992. Page:57

2. Evaluate Currency: a) When was the text published and/or last updated? b) Will you use it for current information or for historical context? c) Why?

The Text ws published on the twentieth of July 1992 by the magazine, and I will use it for current information.

3. Evaluate Purpose: a) What appears to be the purpose of this text? b) Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute? c) Explain your answer stating why you think so.

The text is to persuade us bout what we should not do by using Technology.

4. Conclusion: a) Now that you have assessed the source in more detail, do you still think it is useful? b) Explain why yes or why not. EXPLAIN IN DETAIL.

After looking for the specific topic in a non academic journal, I find that it was the must difficult step in this research because it needs a lot of readings and that latter was not practical as we used to look for the two ones.

5. Reflection of the process and information found – please write an academic and formal reflection.

The third step in our research paper is looking for a non academic periodical that is related to my topic which is the bad effects of technology on our body, so that we can diversify the sources and have more information about the topic.
I spent a lot of time looking for the right information on this step because finding a non academic article needs gathering a lot of magazines and doing a lot of readings, especially when this latter are not like the other steps where all the titles are written and gathered in a database as we see in EBSCOhost. At the beginning, I tried to look only on the scientific magazines because I thought that they are the ones which will contain the information needed, but I find out that these types of magazines talk only about the new discoveries in the medical field or about how to get better from a disease. So, I decided to look on the internet and then, choose only the non academic ones, and I actually find many non academic articles.
Finally, I declare that technology has facilitated many tasks for us and this can be shown on my process when looking for this non academic periodical. And even if we find a lot of book and magazines that are related to our topics, we should not trust them 100 percent because they are not reliable and they can only be commercial ones, that’s why I evaluated the information found to use it in my research paper.