4 Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are created after an event occurred and offer a review or an analysis of the event; they provide an interpretation of the primary source or data without offering new data.
Examples of secondary sources would be:
- Biographies, nonfiction books
- Editorials
- Literary commentaries, criticism and reviews
- Reposts
- Periodicals (such as scholarly journals, magazines, or newspapers)
Watch the video below by KU Libraries explaining what makes an article peer reviewed.
Sources
This section includes material from the source book, The Insiders: Information Literacy for Okies Everywhere, as well as the following:
definition
These are sources of information created after an event has occurred and offer a review or analysis of the event. They provide an interpretation of a primary source or data. Examples include: biographies, nonfiction books, and literary criticism.
