When I started my writing courses, I learned the difference between academic articles and non-academic articles. Both articles contain the same information about alcohol. The difference between the two articles shows whether the article is real and what quotes are from other people referring to the articles. The two articles I will use are from WebMD and Journal of American College Health. Both articles were about the differences between typical college student drinking and celebrating drinking. Typical drinking is when a person has no reason to drink and celebration drinking is when a person drinks for special occasions. The two articles cover many similar topics; however, the two articles have different ways of discussing opinions, facts and information which can be weak or strong. The article can be weak or strong because it depends on how the writer supports his information and how he does it. In the first article, WebMD is a non-academic article. The reason it is not an academic article is because the article does not begin with an abstract. An abstract is basically a hypothesis about the experiment based on the topic. The WebMD article talks about the differences between typical drinking and celebratory drinking. The article used information from different areas that provided statistics on celebration drinking versus typical drinking. The evidence from the article is strong because the writer has many examples to support some of the information in the WebMD article WebMD is a website based on other people's opinions and not facts. WebMD has based their information on other people's quotes, for example; Larry Hembroff stated on this website that “We found that lead article......in the middle of the paper...mostly because it came from a peer-reviewed journal and was not stolen from the scholar. Additionally, using the academic article can provide better information to use as examples. As I stated in the previous paragraphs, the articles could have a similar topic that was about the difference between typical drinking and celebrating drinking; however, both articles have different writing styles. The different types of articles can have the same topic but different headings. Works Cited “Culture of Celebratory Drinking on Campus.” WebMD: Better information. Better health. Network. February 20, 2011. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/news/20021105/celebratory-drinking-culture-on-campus.Woodyard, Catherine D., and Jeffrey S. Hallam. “Differences in Typical College Student Drinking and Celebration Drinking.” Journal of American College Health 58.2 (2010): 533-38. Press.