Monday, February 27, 2012

magazine article vs. scholarly journal


I found an article in glamour magazine called Poverty, Equality, Money and Little Pink Houses: What You Need to Know Today. The article, all though informative on views of our government’s opinions on the matter, it really didn’t have the information I was looking for. There wasn’t much information on what we can do about the poverty problem, how bad it is or even any information on how people have gotten there or how people suffer trying to get back up. The majority of the article was what Obama and such think, who to vote for, and where to focus our money; this article would not be something I would use for information for my paper. The scholarly journal article that I found was called Healthy Generations: the Impact of Childhood Poverty on Health and Development. This article is very informative and helpful for me! This is most definitely something I am going to use for my paper; it has everything I asked for and more. This article gave the exact definition of poverty, race differences in poverty, facts on families, children’s health, and populations in poverty from year to year.  Not only does this article have more of the information I was asking for, but it has all of the sources where the information came from and an author’s name, book references and so on; I’m very happy I found this article.

carpentier, M. (2008). Poverty, equality, money and little pink houses: What you teed to tnow today.

Oberg, C. (2003). The impact of childhood poverty on health and development. Retrieved from http://www.epi.umn.edu/mch/resources/hg/hg_childpoverty.pdf

1 comment:

  1. Hi Briggitte,

    Thank you for your post! Wow--I had no idea that Glamour Magazine was publishing articles about presidential candidates' opinions.

    What is the title of the scholarly journal that the Oberg article came from? Is Oberg a professor at the U of M?

    I look forward to your response.
    Sincerely,
    Professor Wexelbaum

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