Types
Below are types of sources that most generally, but not absolutely, fall into a certain level. The letters after an item describes generally the type it is (though this can vary pending the exact source). P is for Primary sources, S is for Secondary sources, and T is for Tertiary sources. (ed., those with ?s are indeterminate.)
- Published Documents
- Maps
- Literature
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Poems
- Books
- Magazines
- Newspaper articles
- Pamphlets
- Posters
- Advertisements
- Research
- Peer Journals
- Non-government documents
- Organization papers
- Government documents
- Public records
- Voter lists
- Police records
- Court records
- Court hearings
- Court proceedings
- Tax accounts
- Census data and records
- Classified documents
- Laws
- Treaties
- Court decisions
- Unpublished Documents
- Personal papers
- Letters
- Diaries
- Journals
- Wills
- Research
- Surveys
- Fieldwork
- Reports
- Speeches
- Interviews
- Membership records
- Meeting transcripts
- Financial accounts
- Personal papers
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Famous quotes containing the word types:
“If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaverlike tunneling to the top.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
—Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)