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BUS 2013 Business Communications I

Three Types of Publications

One of the assignments for this course is to review articles pertaining to business.

However, there are different kinds of articles from different kinds of publications.  

What's more, you can expect different kinds of coverage from articles that might discuss exactly the same topic...depending on which kind of publication you pull it from.

A simple way of categorizing them is to break publications down into three types:

Popular magazine articles are written: (1) by general authors, (2) to provide general information,  (3) to a general audience.

Trade/Professional publication articles are written: (1) by authors who may be expert in specific industries, (2) to provide general information about the industry, (3) to general members of that industry

Scholarly publication articles are written: (1) by researchers/experts in a particular field, (2) to provide specialized, in-depth information, (3) to other researchers/experts.

 

The following pages of this Research Guide provide pointers for locating articles from select examples of each publication type. 

NOTE: Because there is a huge number of publications of all types, and an even larger number of articles that might be considered in some way related to "business," the specific publications referenced will be: (1) small in number, and (2) as focused on Arkansas-specific businesses as possible.)