Reading a Scholarly Journal Article

This takes some getting used to! The links below will help you get familiar with how these articles are structured.

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article Tutorial

This tutorial provides a great overview of the components of a scholarly article.

How to Read (and Understand) a Social Science Journal Article

This handout was created by Frederique Laubepin of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, in 2013. It offers insight into the components of scholarly articles, as well as strategies for reading those components, both for understanding, but also for finding particular types of information.