How Do You Find Primary Source Documents?
• Prepare yourself. Choose a good way to take notes. • Sort your secondary and tertiary sources by importance. Separate secondary from tertiary sources. • Create a section in your notes for each secondary or tertiary source. For example, create a card with the name of the source and information about it. Leave space to fill in information about its primary sources. Go through your secondary and tertiary sources. For each one, extract whatever information you can about the primary sources used within the secondary/tertiary source and note it down. The specifics differ depending on the type of the secondary or tertiary source, but mostly, the information can be found as follows: • Look for bibliographic, references, or sources sections in most books, encyclopedias and other research papers. Usually all primary sources and citation sources are mentioned there. All you have to do is separate the citation sources from the general ones. • Look within the title or subtitle of interpretative,
