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Types of Research Sources

Art, Photographs, Films, Maps, Fiction, and Music
Art, Photographs, Films, Maps, Fiction, and Music

A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources provide the original materials on which other research is based and enable students and other researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a particular event or time period.

source: sccollege.edu
Artifacts, Buildings, Furniture, and Clothing
Artifacts, Buildings, Furniture, and Clothing

Research Guides Primary ... Primary Sources in Special Collections: ... Artifacts (clothing, furniture, tools, buildings, paintings, artwork)

Autobiographies and Memoirs
Autobiographies and Memoirs

Like an autobiography, a memoir is a narrative that reveals experiences within the author's lifetime. But there are obvious and practical differences between the two similar genres. But there are obvious and practical differences between the two similar genres.

Cash Memo
Cash Memo

1. Cash Memo: Sales and purchases are the main features of any business enterprise. For recording cash sales and cash purchases, cash memos serve as source documents. Cash memo is a source document in which all transactions pertaining to cash sales or purchases are to be recorded.

Cheque:
Cheque:

Cheque Truncation System (CTS) is a cheque clearing system undertaken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for faster clearing of cheques. As the name suggests, truncation is the process of stopping the flow of the physical cheque in its way of clearing. In its place an electronic image of the cheque is transmitted with key important data.

Debit Note:
Debit Note:

Debit Note and Credit Note are used while the return of goods is made between two businesses. Debit Note is issued by the purchaser, at the time of returning the goods to the vendor, and the vendor issues a Credit Note to inform that he/she has received the returned goods.

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Diaries, Personal Letters, and Correspondence
Diaries, Personal Letters, and Correspondence

Overall, then, letters and diaries have certain points of difference as personal texts. Letters are written to a certain particular other; they implore a dialogue. Diaries are written for oneself or an imagined other; they play on the satisfactions of monologue.

Government Documents and Public Records
Government Documents and Public Records

Government Documents. Links to government publications in the National Archives, gateways and guides to federal information, finding aids and indexes to government documents, federal directories, and other government publications.

source: archives.gov
Interviews, Surveys, and Fieldwork
Interviews, Surveys, and Fieldwork

Primary sources are original materials on which other ... court records, interviews, surveys, and original research/fieldwork, and; research published in scholarly ...

Invoice and Bill
Invoice and Bill

Invoices and receipts are source documents for accounting; an invoice is also called a bill. Invoices and receipts are used in accounting to record sales transactions and to account for requests and receipts for payment.

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Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings

Journals, news publications, and magazines are important sources for up-to-date information across a wide variety of topics. With a collection as large and diverse as Cornell's it is often difficult to distinguish between the various levels of scholarship found in the collection.

Original Hand-Written Manuscripts
Original Hand-Written Manuscripts

For example, a library's collection of hand-written letters or diaries is considered a manuscript collection. Such manuscript collections are described in finding aids, similar to an index or table of contents to the collection, in accordance with national and international content standards such as DACS and ISAD(G).

Pay in Slip:
Pay in Slip:

Every month, your finance department will send you a salary slip once the salary gets paid out. For most people, the importance of salary slip is only when they apply for a loan or a new credit card. Otherwise, the confusing terms and figures seem like a puzzle you don't want to solve.

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Photographs, Drawings, and Posters
Photographs, Drawings, and Posters

A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources provide the original materials on which other research is based and enable students and other researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during a particular event or time period.

source: sccollege.edu
Receipt:
Receipt:

What is a Source of Receipt and how do I get a copy ... Source of Receipt ... SOR resolves most research issues and is needed to track the progress of a check ...

Vouchers:
Vouchers:

Watch more Education Week videos. ... School Voucher Research. Not surprisingly, much of the research around vouchers is highly charged and often contradictory.

source: edweek.org
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Works of art and Literature
Works of art and Literature

Survey Research (e.g., market surveys, public opinion polls); Video recordings (e.g. television programs); Works of art, architecture, literature, and music (e.g., paintings, sculptures, musical scores, buildings, novels, poems).