| Primary |
- Peer reviewed
- Published in a scholarly journal
- Authors do their own experiment and discuss their methods and results
- When we cite these sources, we cite them for the results of their experiment
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- In the social sciences and humanities, they're historical documents, speeches, artwork, etc.
- In the sciences, they're people doing their own experiments or research, but not publishing it in a scholarly journal
- We don't cite these in our scholarly sources because they're not peer reviewed
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| Secondary |
- Peer reviewed
- Published in a scholarly journal
- Summary/comparison of scholarly primary sources on a given topic.
- "Systematic Review", "Meta-analysis"
- When we cite these sources, we cite the conclusions they draw.
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- Magazines, trade publications, news articles, press releases, etc.
- We don't cite these in our scholarly sources because they don't generate their own findings, only report on them.
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