Formats and Types of Information
- Formats and Types of Information
- General-Specific
- Scholarly-Popular
- Primary-Secondary
- Free-Fee
Primary-Secondary Information Types
Primary Source Material:
Original research, eyewitness accounts, and creative works; usually presented in its original form. Serves as information to help us interpret an event.
- research article based upon data obtained from original research
- manuscripts, diaries, letters
- speeches, interviews
- autobiographies
- poetry, music or art
- photographs, audio recordings, image recordings
- objects (such as a painting) and artifacts (such as a jar from an ancient site)
- maps
Secondary Source Material:
Collects, summarizes, reports and interprets primary data or the research of others.
- anthologies
- reference books
- non-fiction books or articles that talk about a subject but do not contain original research
- criticism and reviews, such as literary criticism
- biographies