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There are three basic types of information sources in research: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary sources provide firsthand accounts or original data, secondary sources analyze and interpret primary sources, and tertiary sources summarize and provide context for both primary and secondary sources. Examples include original research articles for primary sources, critiques for secondary sources, and encyclopedias for tertiary sources.

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SOURCES

There are three basic types of information sources in research: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary sources provide firsthand accounts or original data, secondary sources analyze and interpret primary sources, and tertiary sources summarize and provide context for both primary and secondary sources. Examples include original research articles for primary sources, critiques for secondary sources, and encyclopedias for tertiary sources.

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What are the different types of sources of information?

Generally, there are three basic types of information sources in research including primary, secondary,
and tertiary. They are as follows:

Primary Sources: Primary sources of information are first hand accounts of research or an event
including original scholarly research results, raw data, testimony, speeches, historic objects or other
evidence that provides unique and original information about a person or an event. These sources were
created at the time which the observation or event occurred but can also be created later by an
eyewitness. Primary sources allow researchers direct access to original ideas, events, and data. Some
examples of primary sources include published original scholarly research articles, original creative
works, and eyewitness accounts of contemporaneous events.

Secondary Sources: Secondary sources analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and interpret primary sources (or
other secondary sources). Secondary sources are created after an event has occurred and are written by
someone who did not experience or observe the event first hand. Some examples of secondary sources
include articles that interpret original scholarly research results and critiques of original creative
works. Secondary sources are not evidence, but rather comment on and discuss previous evidence.

Tertiary Sources: Tertiary sources of information provide broad overviews or condensed narratives of
topics. They analyze and summarize the information in primary and secondary sources in order to
provide background on a idea, event, or topic. Tertiary resources often provide data in a convenient form
and provide context of the topic for a frame of reference. Some examples of tertiary sources include
textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.

Examples of Information Source Types

Tertiary
Primary Sources Secondary Sources Sources

Original journal research articles Bibliographies Abstracts

Conference proceedings Essays or reviews Almanacs

Theses and dissertations Monographs Compilations

Technical reports Literary criticisms or Dictionaries


commentaries

Lab notebooks Magazine and newspaper Encyclopedias


articles
Tertiary
Primary Sources Secondary Sources Sources

Patents Biographies Handbooks

Interviews Media documentaries Fact books

Government documents Gazetteers

Archival materials Atlases

Diaries, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, correspondence, and Chronologies


manuscripts

Speeches Reference
books

Photographs and film (including news film footage) Directories

Artifacts Textbooks

Original creative works

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