Imagine the types of magazines and newspapers that you would find at a bookstore or in the grocery store.We refer to these types of sources as "popular sources;" they are geared to reach a more general audience and written in non-technical language.
Any source that's likely to be of interest to a lot of people, not just other experts or scholars is a popular source. A popular source could be a book, website, newspaper article, or magazine article.
There is some overlap between popular sources and credible sources. However, there are no popular sources that we would consider to be scholarly. The audiences for those sources are completely different, which is why they don't overlap.
A few examples of popular sources:
- The New York Times
- Time
- Popular Science
- National Geographic
- Scientific America