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Search Strategy:
This is a strategy often used by experienced researchers :
This strategy helps eliminate 'false hits' or search results that have nothing to do with what your really looking for.
The following documents are from the SACE research advice website
The attached PDF document will give you questions to consider when you are determining the relevance, credibility and bias of an information source.
Access the SACE document Primary and Secondary Sources for more information about these sources of information.
A primary source is information and/or records that provide first-hand evidence that can be used to create a picture of what happened at the time. They maybe unpublished. (SACE, 2009)
The designations of primary and secondary differ between subjects, particularly between the sciences and the humanities. Primary sources for critics studying the literature of the Second World War are different from those for a research scientist investigating a new drug for arthritis. The critic's primary sources are the poems, stories, and films of the era. The research scientist's primary sources are the results of laboratory tests and the medical records of patients treated with the drug.
Primary Sources of Information
scientific experiment results
poems
diaries
autobiographies
interviews, surveys and fieldwork
letters and correspondence
speeches
newspaper articles (may also be secondary)
government documents
photographs and works of art
original documents (such as birth certificate or trial transcripts)
To find primary sources of information in the library catalogue or in a seach engine add the following words to your keyword search
Secondary sources can be thought of as second-hand information. Secondary sources analyse and interpret primary sources. (SACE, 2009)
Secondary sources of information include :
biographical works
dictionaries and encyclopedias (may also be tertiary)
history
indexing and abstracting tools used to locate primary & secondary sources (may also be tertiary)
journal articles, other than science (may also be primary)
non-fiction (other than autobiography)
newspaper and popular magazine articles (may also be primary)
review articles and literature reviews
textbooks (may also be tertiary)