1. What are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources????

2. Sources that contain raw, original, unevaluated information.
Documents that were created by the witnesses or first recorders of these events at about the time they occurred.
Primary Sources

3. Sources that digest, analyze, evaluate and interpret the information contained within primary sources.
Secondary Sources

4. Sources that compile, analyze, and digest secondary sources.
Tertiary Sources

5. You try!
Based on the definitions given in class, with the person next to you classify (sort) the pile of sources into either primary, secondary, or tertiary.

6. photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films.
Histories;
Literary criticism such as Journal articles;
journals, letters and diaries.
published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time.
government publications.
oral histories.
Bibliographies 
Fact books;
Guidebooks;
Biographical works;
archives and manuscript material.
Commentaries, criticisms;
locate primary and secondary sources;
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (also considered tertiary);
Magazine and newspaper articles;
Monographs, other than fiction and autobiography;
Almanacs; speeches.
scrapbooks.
Chronologies;
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);
Directories;

7. Let’s see how you did!
Look at the chart and ask yourselves if you think you’ve classified your sources correctly.
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY
DEFINITIONS
Sources that contain raw, original, unevaluated information.
Sources that digest, analyze, evaluate and interpret the information contained within primary sources.
Sources that compile, analyze, and digest secondary sources.
FORMATS--depends on the kind of analysis being conducted.
Often newspapers, weekly and monthly-produced magazines; letters, diaries.
Often scholarly journal articles and books.
Often reference books.

8. EXAMPLES abstracts bibliography chronology classification
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY
cases correspondence description and travel diaries fiction (from the time period) interview personal narrative pictorial works/art poetry short stories photographs
Journals of scholarly analysis
criticism and interpretation history and criticism government policy public opinion  
abstracts bibliography chronology classification
textbooks dictionaries directories encyclopedias guidebooks handbooks, manuals, etc. identification indexes registers statistics index
EXAMPLES