EAPP 2 Flashcards
Check the title, table of contents,
summary/abstract, introduction, or
headings of the text to have a sense of
its content.
Relevance
The most important question that we have to ask is…
• What is the date of the publication?
Currency
what does URL means?
Uniform Resource Locator
http://
Protocol (HyperText Transfer)
www
Subdomain
domain (name)
com
Top Level Domain (TLD)
what are the two kinds of sources
Primary and Secondary Sources
• First-hand
information/evidence
• Reports of scientific discoveries
and experiments and research
results in the social sciences.
• Original thinking
• AUTHORITATIVE
Primary Sources
examples of Primary Sources
Diaries, journals, government
documents (e.g. census information,
birth certificate), photograph,
interviews, surveys, paintings, literary
writings (poems, novels), scientific
publications of experiments, artifacts,
audio/video recordings.
• Second-hand accounts of
events or interpretations and
analyses of creative or
scientific works.
• Often lacks freshness and
immediacy of the original
material.
Secondary Sources
example of secondary sources
Biographies, journal articles on the
historical, cultural, political, or social
importance of particular subjects,
article reviews, and research
publications on the significance or
analysis of scientific or political
experiments.