2.9: Most Common Evidence Used by Authors

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.