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Sources of Information Handouts

This document discusses the various sources of information, categorizing them into primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Primary sources are original and firsthand accounts, secondary sources interpret or analyze primary sources, and tertiary sources compile information from both. The document provides examples of each type of source to illustrate their distinctions.

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Sources of Information Handouts

This document discusses the various sources of information, categorizing them into primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Primary sources are original and firsthand accounts, secondary sources interpret or analyze primary sources, and tertiary sources compile information from both. The document provides examples of each type of source to illustrate their distinctions.

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SOURCES OF INFORMATION

CONCEPTS:

This lesson deals with getting information from various sources in


everyday life. Information, as available data everywhere, can be found in
various platforms and means such as news reports, speeches, informative
talks, and panel discussions, among others. Getting information will
basically expose you not only in pool of knowledge, but should also help
you identify which details are factual and not. You are expected to identify
certain details from different sources and use them in various contexts.

Information is news or knowledge received or given. An example of information is


what's given to someone who asks for background about something. Information is the
summarization of data. Technically, data are raw facts and figures that are processed
into information, such as summaries and totals.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
There are various sources of information that you may use in finding
significant details and data that can be used in your daily life. Sources of
information may be classified as to primary, secondary, and tertiary
sources.

Primary Sources
Sources of information are classified as primary if they are authentic and
have not been subjected to evaluation or assessment. These report discoveries,
sharing of information and are first-hand. These are information written at a
certain time or period of research.

Secondary Sources
Secondary sources provide information, discussion, and/or interpretation of the
evidence. These are usually evaluations of primary sources. These are also
information written by authors who do not personally witness the event or action.

Tertiary Sources
Tertiary sources serve as collection of primary and secondary sources, contain
information distilled and collected from primary and secondary sources.
Primary Sources
• Artifacts (e.g. coins, plant specimens, fossils, furniture, tools, clothing, all from the time
under study);
• Audio recordings (e.g. radio programs)
• Diaries;
• Internet communications on email, listservs;
• Interviews (e.g., oral histories, telephone, e-mail);
• Journal articles published in peer-reviewed publications;
• Letters;
• Newspaper articles written at the time;
• Original Documents (i.e. birth certificate, will, marriage license, trial transcript);
• Patents;
• Photographs
• Proceedings of Meetings, conferences and symposia;
• Records of organizations, government agencies (e.g. annual report, treaty, constitution,
government document);
• Speeches;
• Survey Research (e.g., market surveys, public opinion polls);
• Video recordings (e.g. television programs);
• Works of art, architecture, literature, and music (e.g., paintings, sculptures, musical scores,
buildings, novels, poems).
• Web site.

Secondary Sources
• Bibliographies (also considered tertiary);
• Biographical works;
• Commentaries, criticisms;
• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (also considered tertiary);
• Histories;
• Journal articles (depending on the discipline can be primary);
• Magazine and newspaper articles (this distinction varies by discipline);
• Monographs, other than fiction and autobiography;
• Textbooks (also considered tertiary);
• Web site (also considered primary).
•
Tertiary Sources
• Almanacs;
• Bibliographies (also considered secondary);
• Chronologies;
• Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);
• Directories;
• Fact books;
• Guidebooks;
• Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies used to locate primary and secondary sources;
• Manuals;
• Textbooks

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