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Primary and Secondary Sources

Add depth and interest to a research project

So far we've looked at a few types of primary sources:

• original reseach
• diaries, journals
• original documents
• historical publications
• speeches, interviews, email, letters

Here are some others:

• maps
• Public Opinion Polls (as long as you get the raw data and not a interpreted version)
• court documents and laws
• government records
• The Bible, The Koran, and other religious texts
• personal memoirs and autobiographies
  

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.