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Primary and Secondary Sources Primary Source

The term primary source refers to

• Original documents: Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film

footage, autobiographies, official records, etc.

• Creative works: Poetry, drama, novels, music, art, etc.

The primary source is the story, poems, or play you choose to write about. Please see the List of

Literary Works to choose a primary source. The source must come from this list.

Secondary Source

Secondary sources are publications like textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms,

commentaries, encyclopedias, etc. An appropriate secondary source to use for your literary

analysis is a journal article that interprets and offers analysis of a literary work.

The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or

other scholarly publications. For information on finding sources within the Ashford Library,

please view the ENG125 - Literature Research tutorial.