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Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources: Tertiary Sources

This guide will describe the three types of sources and give examples of each so that students will be able to select good sources for course assignments

Tertiary Sources

--Tertiary Sources consist of information which is a distillation and collection of primary and secondary sources.  It condenses or summarizes infromation such as an index.

  • Almanacs
  • Biographical dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias
  • Guide books
  • Suvery articles
  • Timelines
  • User guides
  • Indexes

 

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