WRIT 1102: Science: Primary, secondary sources

Definition:  

What is Scholarly literature?

Literature written by scholars for scholars right? The hallmarks of scholarly literature is Peer Review, which means scholars in the field have reviewed the work and deemed it worthy of publication in a journal. 

Primary:

Most scholarly literature is in Journals and if the original research work is done by the author/s and is published as original research in a journal and the results can be replicated using the same techniques or methods as described in the article, then it is called a PRIMARY resource. Apart from Journal articles, books are another source of Primary Literature:

Bijker, W. E., Hughes, T. P., & Pinch, T. (Eds.). (2012). The social construction of technological systems, anniversary edition: New directions in the sociology and history of technology. MIT Press.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ben/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=3339458#

Bakardjieva, Maria. Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life, SAGE Publications, Limited, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ben/detail.action?docID=334433.

Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research, University of Chicago Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ben/detail.action?docID=4785166.

Andrews, Richard. Research Questions, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ben/detail.action?docID=436194.

Secondary

Any author that uses the primary research and adds to the knowledge base to the primary research is called a secondary resource. A review article falls in this category. So do Systematic Reviews. 

 Tertiary would be Encyclopedias.

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