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  1. 5 days ago · They are called tertiary because they have a third-hand relationship to a given topic: they aren't the immediate witness to what occurred (primary) nor are they analyzing it in maximum depth after the fact (secondary). Instead, tertiary sources take the complexity of primary and secondary discourse and digest it into a more basic form that ...

  2. 5 days ago · Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources. Identifying the kind of source you are using is crucial to understanding both how to evaluate the source and how to use it in your research. Primary sources are original sources of information that drives other research projects.

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  4. 4 days ago · A secondary source is an account of something that happened by people who were NOT there, often framed as a review, summary, or analysis. Technically, a secondary source is a review or analysis of primary sourcestheres also what’s called a tertiary source, that analyzes secondary sources, and so on.

  5. 4 days ago · Tertiary sources: good for an overview; can help narrow a topic. Secondary sources: sources created after the time of the event and not contemporaneous with the lifetime of the person. Primary sources: original objects or documents created near the time being studied.

  6. 5 days ago · Tertiary resources provide an overview, summary, or index of a topic and may contain both primary and secondary sources. Tertiary sources do not include analysis or critique, but are useful for finding background information on a topic (names, dates, definitions, etc.) and can point to other relevant resources.

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  7. 4 days ago · Tertiary Sources. Tertiary sources are summaries of information from primary and secondary source. These are overviews, and are the kinds of information you find in encyclopedias, on Wikipedia, and in bibliographies. Tertiary sources can help you locate secondary sources, in some cases.

  8. 1 day ago · Examples of secondary sources you could review as part of your overall study include: * Bibliographies [also considered tertiary] * Biographical works * Books, other than fiction and autobiography * Commentaries, criticisms * Dictionaries, Encyclopedias [also considered tertiary] * Histories