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English 1A

a library research instructional session and orientation

What are Primary Sources?

 Primary Sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.

Examples of primary sources:

Theses, dissertations, scholarly journal articles (research based), some government reports, symposia and conference proceedings, original artwork, poems, photographs, speeches, letters, memos, personal narratives, diaries, interviews, autobiographies, and correspondence.

https://crk.umn.edu/library/primary-secondary-and-tertiary-sources