Books are long works of usually research- or experience- based work that has been published in book form.
Shorter research-based articles are scholarly articles. Usually you know that an article is scholarly because it is widely researched. One place to find scholarly articles is by searching Google Scholar or library search engines.
If you just use regular Google, you are more likely to find news articles and websites. This information is reported, not researched at a scholarly level.
Primary sources are sources in which the author actually experienced first hand what is being written about. He or she lived through the Korean war. He or she actually did the experiment with the mice. He or she was reporting from the scene of Egypt’s revolution.
Secondary sources are sources that use primary sources to report and draw conclusions about a topic. The authors of secondary source uses primary sources to create their work
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Let’s say you’re researching global warming.
You find this article on Wikipedia, and you think it has some GREAT information.
BUT
you also know that information on Wikipedia can be altered by anyone and therefore could be unreliable….
THE SOLUTION?
Check out the references at the bottom on the Wikipedia page (or at the end of any researched article)...
...and you're bound to find more sources!
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