Scholarly vs. Article

As I was reading the article title "human geography" it came clear to me that articles are usually much easier to read, and more for the general public. In this specific article, many common words were used, and things were explained very well. If a word was not described well, or there was a possibility someone would need more explanation, there was a link to the definition of that specific word. Also, it was much shorter than the scholarly article, which may not always be the way it is, but in comparing these two, the article was much shorter. This specific article was a simple overview of Human Geography, and it does a great job explaining Human Geography. This article was very easy to read, and the style was good for the purpose and the audience.

The scholarly article titled "Human Geography Without Scale" is a much more complex article. This one is much more topic specific and includes geographical words, that usually only people studying geography would know. Also, there is some more complex words such as "juxtaposed" that would not usually be used in a common article. This scholarly article is much longer than the other article, but simply because it goes into much greater detail in the specific topic of scale. This scholarly article would be a great read for a geographer that can understand the full meaning of the context.


Briney, Amanda. Human Geography: An Overview of Human Geography. about.com, n.d. Web. 14 Sept. 2012. <http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/humangeography.htm>.

Marston, S. A., Jones, J. P. and Woodward, K. (2005), Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30: 416–432. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00180.x
^ that last citation is directly from the websites "How to cite" tab.