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KINE1000: Socio-cultural perspectives in Kinesiology: Scholarly Articles

Library Resources for the KINE 1000 Assignment

Evaluating journal articles

Is the article scholarly or peer-reviewed?

Is the article written by an authoritative author(s)?

Purpose, point of view, and any bias of the article?

Usefulness: Is the article relevant to your project/thesis statement? If it is a useful article, does it:

  • support your argument/thesis statement
  • refute an argument / thesis statement
  • give examples (some results, primary research findings, case studies, incidents)
  • provide information that can be challenged or disagreed while connecting to theories or other readings

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"Peer review" (or "refereed") means that an article is reviewed by experts in that field before the article gets published. The peer review (or referee) process is one way to ensure that the research described in a journal's articles is true and follows journal and publisher protocols.

Check Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to see if your journal is peer-reviewed. You can also limit your searches to peer-reviewd or scholarly journals in almost all YUL databases.

e.g. Scholars Portal e-journals

Academic/scholarly journals or popular magazines?

Popular magazine with research explained in easy to understand language

Written in a more advanced style, more suitable for researchers

Journal articles

Some other important journals to browse would include ...Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport;  Sport History Review and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadiend’histoire de la médecine, International Journal of Health Services. It is not necessary that you will get full-text of all articles that you find in databases/subject specific search engines. It is possible that we do not subscribe to that journal. Try to incorporate the theories discussed in your class.