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To develop college-ready research skills, whenever you receive information, whether by reading, hearing or watching, get into the habit of asking yourself: What type of information is this? Factual, analytical, subjective, or objective?
How do you locate information?
Sources of information In high school and college you may be restricted to using primary sources for a report . Will you know what those are and how to find them?
Primary sources can be difficult to find online because they are original materials. They include historical documents such as a handwritten letter, pages of a diary, an original recording of a news event, a newspaper article written at the time of the event, photographs, and original research reports. Copies are often maintained in a library or historical association’s online archive, which is like a file that must be accessed and searched to find the source.
PRODUCT PREVIEW Tertiary sources are lists, compilations, digests, indexes or
Secondary sources are papers, books, magazine articles, journals analyzing, interpreting, or evaluating a primary source.
encyclopedia. Research often begins at the tertiary source, like a Wikipedia or encyclopedia article, then works inward to secondary sources, such as an article or book about the subject, then to the primary sources themselves.
To develop college-ready research skills, know the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Get into the habit of thinking about a source as you read, watch or listen. Ask yourself: Is this a primary, secondary, or tertiary source?
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