A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources include:
-- Adapted from Ithaca College Library
Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process primary sources. Secondary source materials can be:
-- Adapted from Ithaca College Library
| Primary Source: | Secondary Source: |
|---|---|
| Lincoln's Gettysburg Address | Lincoln at Gettysburg: the Words That Remade America by Gary Wills |
| The poem: "Human Chain" by Seamus Heaney |
"His Nibs: Self-Reflexivity and the Significance of Translation in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain." by Michael Parker in Irish University Review (November 2012), pp. 327-350. |
| The table: "Number of Offenses Known to the Police, Universities and Colleges" in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, 2012 |
An article in the Ithacan entitled "Study Finds Eastern Colleges Often Conceal Campus Crime"
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| Mackey, S., Carroll, I., Emir, B., Murphy, T., Whalen, E., & Dumenci, L. (2012). Sensory pain qualities in neuropathic pain. The Journal Of Pain, 13(1), 58-63. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2011.10.002 [a study published in a peer reviewed journal] |
Vance, E. (2014). Where Does It Hurt?. Discover, 35(4), 28-30.
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| Cynthia Scheibe's doctoral dissertation on the developmental differences in children's reasoning about Santa Claus. | An article in Parents Magazine discussing experts' views on the harm of lying to children about Santa Claus. |
Whether you are searching the Library Catalog, databases, or Google Scholar, try adding these these terms to your search. For example: holocaust -- diaries
| -- sources | -- diaries |
| -- records | -- letters |
| -- manuscripts | -- narratives |
