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2.9: Most Common Evidence Used by Authors
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HUMANITIES: LITERATURE, ART, FILM, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY
- Critical essays that analyze other original works
- Details from an image, a film, or other work of art
- Passages from a musical composition
- Passages of text, including poetry
HUMANITIES: HISTORY
- Primary Sources (photos, letters, maps, official documents, etc.)
- Other books or articles that interpret primary sources or other evidence.
SOCIAL SCIENCES: PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY
- Books or articles that interpret data and results from other people’s original experiments or studies.
- Results from field research (including interviews, surveys, observations, etc.)
- Data from their own experiments
- Statistics
SCIENCES: BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS
- Data from their own experiments
- Books or articles that interpret data and results from other people’s original experiments or studies.