ESSAYS

The publication details in Academic Search Complete show American Scholar as an academic (scholarly), peer-reviewed journal that “focuses on American literature, presenting essays on topics relating to literature, authors and poets, and including poetry and book reviews.”

From this description, you can tell that not all scholarly, peer-reviewed journals publish research articles. Following are links to 3 essays from American Scholar:

“A New Birth of Reason”
“Discusses U.S. agnostic politician Robert Green Ingersoll’s support for secularism in government and the related concept of separation of church and state.”

“Happily Ever After”
“Discusses the ways in which the folk tale created by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm) reflected the historical circumstances that lower- and middle-class European families faced.”

“On Friendship”
“In this article, the author reflects on the nature and formation of friendships.”

RESEARCH NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

Many scholarly journals contain short articles discussing recent research. See the following example, again from the scholarly journal American Scholar. This article would be too short to use for most college assignments, but, you can use the information provided in it to search for the actual research article, using LionSearch.

“Footwearology”
Search LionSearch using the terms Journal of Research in Personality, Angela Bahns, shoes and you can easily find the full text of the research referred to in “Footwearology.”