There are a lot of different styles of information delivery used in the medical field, as well as other fields. Two that I am going to compare are an online article from the NY Times and a scholarly article from a library database. Both are about medical marijuana use, but as you will be able to see, they deliver the same topic in two completely different ways.
Comparison:
- The online article is a lot shorter than the scholarly article
- There is no experiment and method in the online article but there are in the scholarly article.
- The online article uses a lot of opinion unlike the scholarly article
- There is no citation for the online article but there is a very long citation list for the scholarly article.
- There is a much broader audience for the online article whereas the audience for the scientific article is smaller and consists of mostly only adults with a higher education.
Despite their distinct differences, both sources are reliable and trustworthy, depending on what information you need. If you need more general information in a broad and quick manner, an online article is the best way to go. For in-depth research that is not opinionated at all, the scholarly article would work best. Again, both are good but that changes depends on type of information is needed.
Carroll, Aaron. “How ‘Medical’ Is Marijuana?” The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 2016. Web. 4 Apr. 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/upshot/is-there-anything-actually-medical-about-medical-marijuana.html?_r=0>.
Wall, Melanie. “Adolescent Marijuana Use from 2002 to 2008: Higher in States with Medical Marijuana Laws, Cause Still Unclear.” Annals of epidemiology 21.9 (2011): 714-16. Print.
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