ILA Recap: Primary, Secondar, Scholarly, and Popular Sources

Articles are usually critically evaluated by experts before they can be published (peer-reviewed).

• Popular Source

• Trade Publication

• Scholarly Source

Intended audience is for people in the specific trade of industry.

• Scholarly Source

• Popular Source

• Trade Publication

Original documents created or experienced contemporaneously with the event being researched.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A documentary can be a primary and secondary source.

• True

• False

Which one(s) are examples of a primary source?

• Biography

• Journal Article

• Interview

• Newspaper

What type of source was the Pirates of the Caribbean reading?

• Scholarly Source

• Popular Source

• Trade Publication