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When writing academic papers, regardless of your topic, you must use scholarly sources to support your argument. Popular sources address a general audience, so they present fewer details and less technical material about the research. Because they provide a less thorough picture of the research than a scholarly article does, for professionals, popular articles are less credible than scholarly ones. It is important that you draw on credible and rigorous—and thus scholarly—sources in academic writing, so we offer the following criteria to distinguish between popular and scholarly sources. Each subsection starts with questions that you can ask when evaluating a source.