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Different types of journal articles

An awareness of different types of journal articles and their purposes can help you identify and locate articles that are relevant to a particular purpose (e.g. research for an assignment). It may also be useful when you need to explain the purpose or rationale of an article that you have read (e.g. when writing an annotated bibliography or literature review).

Here is a useful summary of the different types of articles that may be published in academic peer-reviewed journals.