Slave narratives preserved on microfilm.
is an example of a mircofilm colletion, housed at the Library of Congress, that has been digatized and is freely available.
The book by DoVeanna Fulton
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Research versus Review
Scientific and other peer reviewed journals are excellent sources for primary research sources. However, not every article in those journals will be an article with original research. Some will include book reviews and other materials that are more obviously secondary sources . More difficult to differentiate from original research articles are review articles . Both types of articles will end with a list of References (or Works Cited). Review articles are often as lengthy or even longer that original research articles. What the authors of review articles are doing is analysing and evaluating current research or investigations related to a specific topic, field, or problem. They are not primary sources since they review previously published material. They can be helpful for identifying potentially good primary sources, but they aren't primary themselves. Primary research articles can be identified by a commonly used format. If an article contains the following elements, you can count on it being a primary research article. Look for sections entitled Methods (sometimes with variations, such as Materials and Methods), Results (usually followed with charts and statistical tables), and Discussion . You can also read the abstract to get a good sense of the kind of article that is being presented. If it is a review article instead of a research article, the abstract should make that clear. If there is no abstract at all, that in itself may be a sign that it is not a primary resource. Short research articles, such as those found in Science and similar scientific publications that mix news, editorials, and forums with research reports, may not include any of those elements. In those cases look at the words the authors use, phrases such as "we tested," "we used," and "in our study, we measured" will tell you that the article is reporting on original research.
Primary or Secondary: You Decide
The distinction between types of sources can get tricky, because a secondary source may also be a primary source. DoVeanna Fulton's book on slave narratives, for example, can be looked at as both a secondary and a primary source. The distinction may depend on how you are using the source and the nature of your research. If you are researching slave narratives, the book would be a secondary source because Fulton is commenting on the narratives. If your assignment is to write a book review of Speaking Power , the book becomes a primary source, because you are commenting, evaluating, and discussing DoVeanna Fulton's ideas.
You can't always determine if something is primary or secondary just because of the source it is found in. Articles in newspapers and magazines are usually considered secondary sources. However, if a story in a newspaper about the Iraq war is an eyewitness account, that would be a primary source. If the reporter, however, includes additional materials he or she has gathered through interviews or other investigations, the article would be a secondary source. An interview in the Rolling Stone with Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes would be a primary source, but a review of the latest Black Crowes album would be a secondary source. In contrast, scholarly journals include research articles with primary materials, but they also have review articles that are not, or in some disciplines include articles where scholars are looking at primary source materials and coming to new conclusions.
For your thinking and not just to confuse you even further, some experts include tertiary sources as an additional distinction to make. These are sources that compile or, especially, digest other sources. Some reference materials and textbooks are considered tertiary sources when their chief purpose is to list or briefly summarize or, from an even further removed distance, repackage ideas. This is the reason that you may be advised not to include an encyclopedia article in a final bibliography.
The above material was adapted from the excellent explanation written by John Henderson found on Ithaca College's library website http://www.ithacalibrary.com/sp/subjects/primary and is used with permission.
What are some examples of primary sources.
Common examples of primary sources include interview transcripts , photographs, novels, paintings, films, historical documents, and official statistics.
Anything you directly analyze or use as first-hand evidence can be a primary source, including qualitative or quantitative data that you collected yourself.
A scientific citation style is a system of source citation that is used in scientific disciplines. Some commonly used scientific citation styles are:
There are many different citation styles used across different academic disciplines, but they fall into three basic approaches to citation:
A source annotation in an annotated bibliography fulfills a similar purpose to an abstract : they’re both intended to summarize the approach and key points of a source.
However, an annotation may also evaluate the source , discussing the validity and effectiveness of its arguments. Even if your annotation is purely descriptive , you may have a different perspective on the source from the author and highlight different key points.
You should never just copy text from the abstract for your annotation, as doing so constitutes plagiarism .
Most academics agree that you shouldn’t cite Wikipedia as a source in your academic writing , and universities often have rules against doing so.
This is partly because of concerns about its reliability, and partly because it’s a tertiary source. Tertiary sources are things like encyclopedias and databases that collect information from other sources rather than presenting their own evidence or analysis. Usually, only primary and secondary sources are cited in academic papers.
A Wikipedia citation usually includes the title of the article, “Wikipedia” and/or “Wikimedia Foundation,” the date the article was last updated, and the URL.
In APA Style , you’ll give the URL of the current revision of the article so that you’re sure the reader accesses the same version as you.
There’s some disagreement about whether Wikipedia can be considered a reliable source . Because it can be edited by anyone, many people argue that it’s easy for misleading information to be added to an article without the reader knowing.
Others argue that because Wikipedia articles cite their sources , and because they are worked on by so many editors, misinformation is generally removed quickly.
However, most universities state that you shouldn’t cite Wikipedia in your writing.
Hanging indents are used in reference lists in various citation styles to allow the reader to easily distinguish between entries.
You should apply a hanging indent to your reference entries in APA , MLA , and Chicago style.
A hanging indent is used to indent all lines of a paragraph except the first.
When you create a hanging indent, the first line of the paragraph starts at the border. Each subsequent line is indented 0.5 inches (1.27 cm).
APA and MLA style both use parenthetical in-text citations to cite sources and include a full list of references at the end, but they differ in other ways:
A parenthetical citation in Chicago author-date style includes the author’s last name, the publication date, and, if applicable, the relevant page number or page range in parentheses . Include a comma after the year, but not after the author’s name.
For example: (Swan 2003, 6)
To automatically generate accurate Chicago references, you can use Scribbr’s free Chicago reference generator .
APA Style distinguishes between parenthetical and narrative citations.
In parenthetical citations , you include all relevant source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence or clause: “Parts of the human body reflect the principles of tensegrity (Levin, 2002).”
In narrative citations , you include the author’s name in the text itself, followed by the publication date in parentheses: “Levin (2002) argues that parts of the human body reflect the principles of tensegrity.”
In a parenthetical citation in MLA style , include the author’s last name and the relevant page number or range in parentheses .
For example: (Eliot 21)
A parenthetical citation gives credit in parentheses to a source that you’re quoting or paraphrasing . It provides relevant information such as the author’s name, the publication date, and the page number(s) cited.
How you use parenthetical citations will depend on your chosen citation style . It will also depend on the type of source you are citing and the number of authors.
APA does not permit the use of ibid. This is because APA in-text citations are parenthetical and there’s no need to shorten them further.
Ibid. may be used in Chicago footnotes or endnotes .
Write “Ibid.” alone when you are citing the same page number and source as the previous citation.
When you are citing the same source, but a different page number, use ibid. followed by a comma and the relevant page number(s). For example:
Only use ibid . if you are directing the reader to a previous full citation of a source .
Ibid. only refers to the previous citation. Therefore, you should only use ibid. directly after a citation that you want to repeat.
Ibid. is an abbreviation of the Latin “ibidem,” meaning “in the same place.” Ibid. is used in citations to direct the reader to the previous source.
Signal phrases can be used in various ways and can be placed at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence.
To use signal phrases effectively, include:
Different citation styles require you to use specific verb tenses when using signal phrases.
Signal phrases allow you to give credit for an idea or quote to its author or originator. This helps you to:
A signal phrase is a group of words that ascribes a quote or idea to an outside source.
Signal phrases distinguish the cited idea or argument from your own writing and introduce important information including the source of the material that you are quoting , paraphrasing , or summarizing . For example:
“ Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker (1994) insists that humans possess an innate faculty for comprehending grammar.”
If you’re quoting from a text that paraphrases or summarizes other sources and cites them in parentheses , APA and Chicago both recommend retaining the citations as part of the quote. However, MLA recommends omitting citations within a quote:
Footnote or endnote numbers that appear within quoted text should be omitted in all styles.
If you want to cite an indirect source (one you’ve only seen quoted in another source), either locate the original source or use the phrase “as cited in” in your citation.
In scientific subjects, the information itself is more important than how it was expressed, so quoting should generally be kept to a minimum. In the arts and humanities, however, well-chosen quotes are often essential to a good paper.
In social sciences, it varies. If your research is mainly quantitative , you won’t include many quotes, but if it’s more qualitative , you may need to quote from the data you collected .
As a general guideline, quotes should take up no more than 5–10% of your paper. If in doubt, check with your instructor or supervisor how much quoting is appropriate in your field.
To present information from other sources in academic writing , it’s best to paraphrase in most cases. This shows that you’ve understood the ideas you’re discussing and incorporates them into your text smoothly.
It’s appropriate to quote when:
To paraphrase effectively, don’t just take the original sentence and swap out some of the words for synonyms. Instead, try:
The main point is to ensure you don’t just copy the structure of the original text, but instead reformulate the idea in your own words.
“ Et al. ” is an abbreviation of the Latin term “et alia,” which means “and others.” It’s used in source citations to save space when there are too many authors to name them all.
Guidelines for using “et al.” differ depending on the citation style you’re following:
To insert endnotes in Microsoft Word, follow the steps below:
If you need to change the type of notes used in a Word document from footnotes to endnotes , or the other way around, follow these steps:
To insert a footnote automatically in a Word document:
Footnotes are notes indicated in your text with numbers and placed at the bottom of the page. They’re used to provide:
Be sparing in your use of footnotes (other than citation footnotes), and consider whether the information you’re adding is relevant for the reader.
Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page they refer to. This is convenient for the reader but may cause your text to look cluttered if there are a lot of footnotes.
Endnotes appear all together at the end of the whole text. This may be less convenient for the reader but reduces clutter.
Both footnotes and endnotes are used in the same way: to cite sources or add extra information. You should usually choose one or the other to use in your text, not both.
An in-text citation is an acknowledgement you include in your text whenever you quote or paraphrase a source. It usually gives the author’s last name, the year of publication, and the page number of the relevant text. In-text citations allow the reader to look up the full source information in your reference list and see your sources for themselves.
If you are reusing content or data you used in a previous assignment, make sure to cite yourself. You can cite yourself just as you would cite any other source: simply follow the directions for that source type in the citation style you are using.
Keep in mind that reusing your previous work can be considered self-plagiarism , so make sure you ask your professor or consult your university’s handbook before doing so.
A credible source should pass the CRAAP test and follow these guidelines:
Peer review is a process of evaluating submissions to an academic journal. Utilizing rigorous criteria, a panel of reviewers in the same subject area decide whether to accept each submission for publication. For this reason, academic journals are often considered among the most credible sources you can use in a research project– provided that the journal itself is trustworthy and well-regarded.
Academic dishonesty can be intentional or unintentional, ranging from something as simple as claiming to have read something you didn’t to copying your neighbor’s answers on an exam.
You can commit academic dishonesty with the best of intentions, such as helping a friend cheat on a paper. Severe academic dishonesty can include buying a pre-written essay or the answers to a multiple-choice test, or falsifying a medical emergency to avoid taking a final exam.
Academic dishonesty refers to deceitful or misleading behavior in an academic setting. Academic dishonesty can occur intentionally or unintentionally, and varies in severity.
It can encompass paying for a pre-written essay, cheating on an exam, or committing plagiarism . It can also include helping others cheat, copying a friend’s homework answers, or even pretending to be sick to miss an exam.
Academic dishonesty doesn’t just occur in a classroom setting, but also in research and other academic-adjacent fields.
To apply a hanging indent to your reference list or Works Cited list in Word or Google Docs, follow the steps below.
Microsoft Word:
Google Docs:
When the hanging indent is applied, for each reference, every line except the first is indented. This helps the reader see where one entry ends and the next begins.
For a published interview (whether in video , audio, or print form ), you should always include a citation , just as you would for any other source.
For an interview you conducted yourself , formally or informally, you often don’t need a citation and can just refer to it in the text or in a footnote , since the reader won’t be able to look them up anyway. MLA , however, still recommends including citations for your own interviews.
The main elements included in a newspaper interview citation across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the names of the interviewer and interviewee, the interview title, the publication date, the name of the newspaper, and a URL (for online sources).
The information is presented differently in different citation styles. One key difference is that APA advises listing the interviewer in the author position, while MLA and Chicago advise listing the interviewee first.
The elements included in a newspaper article citation across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the author name, the article title, the publication date, the newspaper name, and the URL if the article was accessed online .
In APA and MLA, the page numbers of the article appear in place of the URL if the article was accessed in print. No page numbers are used in Chicago newspaper citations.
Untitled sources (e.g. some images ) are usually cited using a short descriptive text in place of the title. In APA Style , this description appears in brackets: [Chair of stained oak]. In MLA and Chicago styles, no brackets are used: Chair of stained oak.
For social media posts, which are usually untitled, quote the initial words of the post in place of the title: the first 160 characters in Chicago , or the first 20 words in APA . E.g. Biden, J. [@JoeBiden]. “The American Rescue Plan means a $7,000 check for a single mom of four. It means more support to safely.”
MLA recommends quoting the full post for something short like a tweet, and just describing the post if it’s longer.
The main elements included in image citations across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the name of the image’s creator, the image title, the year (or more precise date) of publication, and details of the container in which the image was found (e.g. a museum, book , website ).
In APA and Chicago style, it’s standard to also include a description of the image’s format (e.g. “Photograph” or “Oil on canvas”). This sort of information may be included in MLA too, but is not mandatory.
The main elements included in a lecture citation across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the name of the speaker, the lecture title, the date it took place, the course or event it was part of, and the institution it took place at.
For transcripts or recordings of lectures/speeches, other details like the URL, the name of the book or website , and the length of the recording may be included instead of information about the event and institution.
The main elements included in a YouTube video citation across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the name of the author/uploader, the title of the video, the publication date, and the URL.
The format in which this information appears is different for each style.
All styles also recommend using timestamps as a locator in the in-text citation or Chicago footnote .
Each annotation in an annotated bibliography is usually between 50 and 200 words long. Longer annotations may be divided into paragraphs .
The content of the annotation varies according to your assignment. An annotation can be descriptive, meaning it just describes the source objectively; evaluative, meaning it assesses its usefulness; or reflective, meaning it explains how the source will be used in your own research .
Any credible sources on your topic can be included in an annotated bibliography . The exact sources you cover will vary depending on the assignment, but you should usually focus on collecting journal articles and scholarly books . When in doubt, utilize the CRAAP test !
An annotated bibliography is an assignment where you collect sources on a specific topic and write an annotation for each source. An annotation is a short text that describes and sometimes evaluates the source.
The elements included in journal article citations across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the article, the year of publication, the name of the journal, the volume and issue numbers, the page range of the article, and, when accessed online, the DOI or URL.
In MLA and Chicago style, you also include the specific month or season of publication alongside the year, when this information is available.
In APA , MLA , and Chicago style citations for sources that don’t list a specific author (e.g. many websites ), you can usually list the organization responsible for the source as the author.
If the organization is the same as the website or publisher, you shouldn’t repeat it twice in your reference:
If there’s no appropriate organization to list as author, you will usually have to begin the citation and reference entry with the title of the source instead.
The main elements included in website citations across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the author, the date of publication, the page title, the website name, and the URL. The information is presented differently in each style.
When you want to cite a specific passage in a source without page numbers (e.g. an e-book or website ), all the main citation styles recommend using an alternate locator in your in-text citation . You might use a heading or chapter number, e.g. (Smith, 2016, ch. 1)
In APA Style , you can count the paragraph numbers in a text to identify a location by paragraph number. MLA and Chicago recommend that you only use paragraph numbers if they’re explicitly marked in the text.
For audiovisual sources (e.g. videos ), all styles recommend using a timestamp to show a specific point in the video when relevant.
The abbreviation “ et al. ” (Latin for “and others”) is used to shorten citations of sources with multiple authors.
“Et al.” is used in APA in-text citations of sources with 3+ authors, e.g. (Smith et al., 2019). It is not used in APA reference entries .
Use “et al.” for 3+ authors in MLA in-text citations and Works Cited entries.
Use “et al.” for 4+ authors in a Chicago in-text citation , and for 10+ authors in a Chicago bibliography entry.
Check if your university or course guidelines specify which citation style to use. If the choice is left up to you, consider which style is most commonly used in your field.
Other more specialized styles exist for certain fields, such as Bluebook and OSCOLA for law.
The most important thing is to choose one style and use it consistently throughout your text.
The main elements included in all book citations across APA , MLA , and Chicago style are the author, the title, the year of publication, and the name of the publisher. A page number is also included in in-text citations to highlight the specific passage cited.
In Chicago style and in the 6th edition of APA Style , the location of the publisher is also included, e.g. London: Penguin.
A block quote is a long quote formatted as a separate “block” of text. Instead of using quotation marks , you place the quote on a new line, and indent the entire quote to mark it apart from your own words.
The rules for when to apply block quote formatting depend on the citation style:
In academic writing , there are three main situations where quoting is the best choice:
Don’t overuse quotes; your own voice should be dominant. If you just want to provide information from a source, it’s usually better to paraphrase or summarize .
Every time you quote a source , you must include a correctly formatted in-text citation . This looks slightly different depending on the citation style .
For example, a direct quote in APA is cited like this: “This is a quote” (Streefkerk, 2020, p. 5).
Every in-text citation should also correspond to a full reference at the end of your paper.
A quote is an exact copy of someone else’s words, usually enclosed in quotation marks and credited to the original author or speaker.
The DOI is usually clearly visible when you open a journal article on an academic database. It is often listed near the publication date, and includes “doi.org” or “DOI:”. If the database has a “cite this article” button, this should also produce a citation with the DOI included.
If you can’t find the DOI, you can search on Crossref using information like the author, the article title, and the journal name.
A DOI is a unique identifier for a digital document. DOIs are important in academic citation because they are more permanent than URLs, ensuring that your reader can reliably locate the source.
Journal articles and ebooks can often be found on multiple different websites and databases. The URL of the page where an article is hosted can be changed or removed over time, but a DOI is linked to the specific document and never changes.
When a book’s chapters are written by different authors, you should cite the specific chapter you are referring to.
When all the chapters are written by the same author (or group of authors), you should usually cite the entire book, but some styles include exceptions to this.
Articles in newspapers and magazines can be primary or secondary depending on the focus of your research.
In historical studies, old articles are used as primary sources that give direct evidence about the time period. In social and communication studies, articles are used as primary sources to analyze language and social relations (for example, by conducting content analysis or discourse analysis ).
If you are not analyzing the article itself, but only using it for background information or facts about your topic, then the article is a secondary source.
A fictional movie is usually a primary source. A documentary can be either primary or secondary depending on the context.
If you are directly analyzing some aspect of the movie itself – for example, the cinematography, narrative techniques, or social context – the movie is a primary source.
If you use the movie for background information or analysis about your topic – for example, to learn about a historical event or a scientific discovery – the movie is a secondary source.
Whether it’s primary or secondary, always properly cite the movie in the citation style you are using. Learn how to create an MLA movie citation or an APA movie citation .
To determine if a source is primary or secondary, ask yourself:
Some types of source are nearly always primary: works of art and literature, raw statistical data, official documents and records, and personal communications (e.g. letters, interviews ). If you use one of these in your research, it is probably a primary source.
Primary sources are often considered the most credible in terms of providing evidence for your argument, as they give you direct evidence of what you are researching. However, it’s up to you to ensure the information they provide is reliable and accurate.
Always make sure to properly cite your sources to avoid plagiarism .
Common examples of secondary sources include academic books, journal articles , reviews, essays , and textbooks.
Anything that summarizes, evaluates or interprets primary sources can be a secondary source. If a source gives you an overview of background information or presents another researcher’s ideas on your topic, it is probably a secondary source.
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Primary source essay.
This 3000-word source-based essay focuses on one primary source to shed light on material evaluation in the Enlightenment. To achieve this, the essay will also draw on other primary and secondary sources.
The essay will be marked using the usual history-specific marking criteria for written work . That said, a primary-source essay is a particular type of essay that calls for specific tasks that are not relevant to all other essays.
Like any other essay, this one needs to be an argument--it needs to state a thesis and make a case for that thesis. Unlike other essays, the argument of this essay will centre on a primary source. More details on the task are below.
The thesis. This needs to be related to the theme of the module, namely material evaluation in the Enlightenment. Beyond that, you are free to choose a topic as a function of your own knowledge and interests. It may help to consider some of the theses we have encountered in the secondary readings, such as Emma Spary's thesis that botanical expertise replaced scholarly expertise as the main way of evaluating coffee in France around 1700; or William Ashworth's thesis that the hydrometer was part of the political struggle between producers and the state in eighteenth-century Britain. Your thesis will probably be less ambitious than these, given the constraints of the assignment. But you may find these theses (by Spary, Ashworth, and the other historians we have read) a useful model to follow. The note under 'Contextualise' below may also be useful.
The primary source. This may be any primary source related to material evaluation in the Enlightenment. The one limitation is that it cannot be one of the primary sources we have discussed in detail in seminars, such as Robert Boyle's 1675 article on gold assaying in the Phil. Trans ., or Henry Drax's instructions on the management of a Barbadian sugar plantation. More precisely, you cannot choose the passages from these sources that we discussed in detail in class. For example, you may choose the sections on beer in Leadbetter's Royal Gauger , but not the sections on the distillery. The source may be a written document, but it may also be an object, diagram, painting, or any other historical artefact that sheds light on the past.
Finding a primary source . One way to find the source is through a relevant secondary source. If you are interested in connoisseurship in the fine arts, for example, you might look through the Warwick library catalogue for books on this topic related to the eighteenth century. You might then find, for example, Carol Gibson-Wood's book Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment , which in turn discusses many relevant primary sources. Another approach is to start with the primary sources themselves by searching through collections of relevant sources. Examples are:
The online archive of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Early English Books Online , a database of early modern English texts
The online archive of the English East India Company
Eighteenth-century encyclopaedias, such as Chambers' Cyclopaedia , the fourth edition of which has been digitised
The catalogues of public museums, such as the Oxford Museum for the History of Science and the British Museum
Virtual exhibitions, such as the Intoxicating Spaces exhibition or the Sugar and the Visual Imagination exhibition
Analysing the primary source. Analysing primary sources is more an art than a science, and there are no hard-and-fast rules about how to do it. However, for the purpose of this essay you should do at least the following:
Interpret. Decipher the source so that it can be understood by a non-specialist audience. This may mean explaining technical terms, rephrasing complicated sentences, identifying rhetorical devices or figures of speech, or (for long texts) summarising the argument or narrative.
Explain. Get behind the source to understand its conditions of production. Who was the author? Who was the intended audience? Why, when, how, and where was the source made? Which genre does it belong to (encyclopaedia article, scientific article, merchant correspondence...) and how does it fit into the history of that genre?
Contextualise. Relate the source to wider historical developments of the kind that we have covered in the module, such as the the growth of the fiscal-military state, the growth of a consumer culture, and the outbreak of the French Revolution.
The essay could be structured around these three tasks, with one section on each - but it does not need to be. The important thing is to do these three things as part of your research, and to integrate them into your argument.
Other sources. Although the essay should be centred on one primary source, it does not need to be limited to that source. Indeed, you will need to draw on other primary and secondary sources to make sense of the primary source that you focus on. The expectation is that you will draw on five (or more) secondary sources and one (or more) additional primary sources. The secondary sources can be made of books, book chapters, journal articles, or chapters in edited collections.
Meeting with tutor. All students are strongly encouraged to meet the tutor (during office hours ) to discuss their choice of primary source. This meeting can take place any time in term 2 before the essay deadline, but should be around the time you decide upon that source.
Primary and secondary sources.
Knowing the difference between primary and secondary sources will help you determine what types of sources you may need to include in your research essay. In general, primary sources are original works (original historical documents, art works, interviews, etc.), while secondary sources contain others’ insights and writings about those primary works (scholar articles about historical documents, art works, interviews, etc.).
While many scholarly sources are secondary sources, you will sometimes be asked to find primary sources in your research. For this reason, you should understand the differences between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
Art | Painting | Critical review of the painting | Encyclopedia article on the artist |
History | Civil War diary | Book on a Civil War battle | List of battle sites |
Literature | Novel or poem | Essay about themes in the work | Biography of the author |
Political science | Geneva Convention | Article about prisoners of war | Chronology of treaties |
Agriculture | Conference paper on tobacco genetics | Review article on the current state of tobacco research | Encyclopedia article on tobacco |
Chemistry | Chemical patent | Book on chemical reactions | Table of related reactions |
Physics | Einstein’s diary | Biography on Einstein | Dictionary of relativity |
Analyze your topic/working thesis to determine the types of sources that can help with support. For example, if your topic deals with Van Gogh’s use of pale green and what it connotes in his later paintings, you will need to couple evidence from primary sources (images of the paintings themselves) with secondary sources (other scholars’ views, discussions, and logical arguments about the same topic). If your working thesis deals with the benefits of regular exercise for older adults in their 70s-90s, you may couple evidence from primary sources (uninterpreted data from research studies, interviews with older adults or experts in the field) with secondary sources (interpretations of research studies). In some cases, you may find that your research is mostly from secondary sources and that’s fine, depending on your topic and working thesis. Just make sure to consider, consciously, the types of sources that can best be used to support your own ideas.
The following video provides a clear overview of primary and secondary sources.
A primary source can be an article, document, diary, manuscript, object or information written or created at the time an event actually took place. Primary sources serve as an original source of information.
A primary source is a first-hand record of an event or topic created by a participant in or a witness to that event or topic. Primary sources can be a document, letter, eye-witness account, diary, article, book, recording, statistical data, manuscript, or art object. Primary sources vary by discipline and provide an original source of information about an era or event. Although primary sources can include first-hand accounts that were documented later, such as memoirs or oral histories, primary sources created or written closest to the time of the actual event are considered to be the most useful sources for research purposes.
A secondary source is second-hand information written or created after an event. Secondary sources may summarize, interpret, review, or criticize existing events or works. Secondary sources were written or created after an event by people who were not at the original event. Secondary sources can be many formats including books, articles, encyclopedias, textbooks, or a scholar’s interpretation of past events or conditions.
Examples of Primary Sources and Secondary Sources:
Primary Source: Secondary Source:
An original painting by Mary Cassatt A book about the artist Mary Cassatt
President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address An article about Abraham Lincoln
A photograph of Harry Houdini A website about Houdini's magic tricks
An original Gershwin musical score A recent recording of Gershwin songs
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Primary sources are pieces of data directly connected to an event. Generally, the source was created at the time in which the event occurred.
A primary source is generally understood in contrast to a secondary source, which is a source that reports on and makes comments on primary sources after the fact.
Primary sources should reveal new data about something. By contrast, secondary sources simply comment on or re-examine existing data.
However, as we’ll explore, the distinction between primary and secondary sources becomes very unclear very quickly. This is because context and the scholarly field of study matter in defining something as a primary vs secondary source.
1. artifacts (in archeology).
Artifacts in archeology are objects crafted by humans. Examples of artifacts include tools, pottery, and arrowheads that are found in excavations.
These artifacts provide new first-hand accounts of what life was like at the time. They aren’t recounts or reflections. They’re the actual physical objects from the era. They’re therefore considered primary sources for analysis.
When an artifact reveals information about the culture of the time, we call it a cultural artifact. Examples of cultural artifacts include artworks and children’s toys found in a dig.
Audio recordings of an event are considered primary sources. For example, recorded audio of Richard Nixon taking in the oval office during the watergate scandal is a primary source: it is literally a recording of him committing a crime.
However, audio recordings of interviews with people after the event (such as an interview that takes place 2 weeks after something has happened) could be primary or secondary, depending on the context and academic discipline.
In many cases post-event interviews are seen as secondary because they do not occur concurrent with the occasion. Hindsight and memory are too imperfect to consider this a primary source.
In other cases, audio recordings such as interviews taken after an event are most certainly primary sources. For example, interview research in social science research is generally seen as primary research (as opposed to, for example, a literature review , which is considered secondary research ).
Autobiographies and memoirs are considered primary sources in instances where someone is studying the life of the writer.
In these cases, those accounts of a person by a person are direct reports that can give new insights or direct clarity about the person.
By contrast, a biography (a story written by an author about someone else) would be considered a secondary source because it is a journalistic piece written about rather than by the person.
Biofacts are organic matter found in archeological excavations. They differ from artifacts because they’re not just crafted by humans; they’re actually natural objects like bones and shells.
A biofact, such as the bones of an Egyptian mummy, can reveal direct and unfiltered information about the people of the times. For example, they can give us unambiguous information about the height of humans during an era, how a human died, or whether a culture of humans in the past created jewelry out of shells.
A diary is arguably a better version of primary data than a memoir and further down the scale toward a primary source and away from a secondary source.
This is because diaries are usually written at the time of the event . They are written when the memory of things are fresh in the mind of the writer, meaning there is less fog of time and less time for memory to fade or change.
Emails are records of events that took place at the time in which they were occurring.
An email can therefore form compelling evidence that can be revealing of the thought processes of people under study. They can, for example, be produced as primary evidence during court hearings about a dispute between two people emailing one another.
Emails may become secondary sources if they are simply a typed-out opinion on an event . In this case, the opinionated email is only secondary data about the event on which a person is speaking as it’s not connected to the event directly.
In archeology, a feature is an immovable contextual piece found during an archeological survey. They help reveal information about the time and place.
Examples of features include hearths, remains of walls, and remains of firepits. They can help reveal information about the architecture of the day, how people cooked, and how large settlements were within a geographical area.
Government documents, such as records of births, deaths, and marriages, are primary sources about a time and place.
Historians look back at government documents from civilizations of the past to get information about the size of cities, the health of their citizens, and so forth.
In hundreds or thousands of years in the future, future civilizations may look at government records of today to get first-hand information about our society, as well.
If you conduct an interview yourself and use it as data in a research study, then that interview is generally considered a primary source of data.
Interviews are, in fact, some of the most common ways to conduct primary research for undergraduate research students. They can be an integral part of straightforward qualitative research studies to help ease students into the world of primary research.
In some instances and by some academic standards, such as if an interview is a person’s recount of an event and you are analyzing “what happened during an event”, then it may be a secondary source.
But if the study is of “15 people’s opinions of an event”, then the interview in which they share their opinions will be a primary source.
Here, you can see that the research question (whether the focus is on the event or opinions of the event) is important in determining whether some things are primary or secondary sources.
A letter posted from one person to another can be a primary source for a historian looking to unveil new information about their relationship.
For example, love letters between couples separated during WWII would be compelling primary sources for a historian writing a book about soldiers and their wives during the war.
Similarly, were a biographer to find a letter of invitation for a person to attend a university, then that letter of invitation is compelling primary evidence that would confirm that they had, in fact, been accepted to study there.
Manuscripts are the original copies of a book or essay. They can be extremely revealing of original data that took place before it had become distorted through transcriptions.
Historically, they were the original pieces written by hand before the manuscript was typed out and printed. Today, they can be the drafts written on a computer before editors requested edits.
One example of the search for the original manuscripts is the bible. The original manuscripts of many books of the bible are missing. People search out those manuscripts to find the exact original text given that meaning may have been lost over time with so much transcription over time.
Original maps, such as the maps drawn by explorers like Christopher Columbus and Captain James Cook, can reveal important first-hand information about the travels of those explorers.
These maps might be able to reveal information about what people were thinking at a certain time, their knowledge of their terrain, and even the extent of expansion of cities at certain times.
Similarly, a map of a city from a particular year might reveal information about when some shops opened and when buildings were constructed.
Metadata is data that gives contextual information about the data.
The best example is images on the internet. The image is the data, but the image file also contains information like:
This metadata can be extremely useful when doing forensic analysis.
For example, if detectives are trying to determine the sequence of events for a crime, they can look through phone records to identify where a person was at a certain time based on the metadata saying when, where, and to whom they made phone calls.
This metadata can help place someone at a crime scene or, alternatively, help exonerate someone from a crime by proving their alibi.
Old magazine clippings can give us great insights into the events of the past.
When examining an event, the magazine clipping reporting on the event can be a very close proximate and contextual element worthy of first-hand analysis.
For example, magazine clippings of the days leading up to the first world war could be excellent primary sources when examining the social milieu at the time when the war began.
Photographs capture an exact moment in history. Everything within the scene can give some first-hand context that we can learn from.
This primary data can be used when gathering information about the exact aftermath of an event, people’s guttural reactions (through examining facial expressions), and even the finer details of the interiors of a house. They could, similarly, reveal first-hand data about the fashion of a time.
Raw research data, such as the raw data from a survey, scientific analysis, poll, or other quantitative studies, acts as a primary source.
Other examples include test results, protein and genetic sequences, audiotapes, questionnaires, and field notes.
This research data often needs to be interpreted by trained scientists and researchers. Sometimes, primary data is extremely difficult to interpret, which is why secondary sources are often necessary (i.e. sources that interpret, analyze, and present the primary data through their own studies and journalism).
Social media posts are some of the newest examples of primary sources that are coming back to bite people these days.
Politicians, actors, and public figures have their old social media posts scoured for embarrassing or offensive comments. These posts are presented as firm evidence of the opinions and behaviors of a person at a specific time in their lives.
Famous speeches from history are regularly used as first-hand accounts of events.
Speeches such as the Gettysburg address are transcribed and kept as the raw primary data. To this day, those speeches act as the closest accounts we can get to the exact words and thoughts of the person.
Today, a speech may be saved in audio or video form, making it an even more authoritative source.
Statistics can provide objective data from a time and place. They can help us piece together history via a first-hand account taken at the time of the event.
For example, historical censuses allow us to not only know about the population data of a country at a certain time in history, but they allow us to map how fast populations have grown and make projections about population growth into the future.
One example of an early census is the Chinese census that took place in the year 2 CE. This census found that there were 57,671,400 individuals living in 12,366,470 households.
Another famous census was William the Conquerer’s census of 1086 in England, nicknamed the Doomesday Book . The purpose of this census was to determine how many people he could tax after taking over the country following the Battle of Hastings.
In the natural sciences, reports that deliver the findings of research data (including, most commonly, academic peer-reviewed journal articles ) are considered primary sources.
This is because the reports present findings of a first-hand study, rather than (for example) reviews of literature or syntheses of other people’s data.
Similarly, in journalism, an academic report will be considered primary data whereas a journalistic article discussing an academic report would be secondary. Therefore, journalists generally aim to find and read the original report (aka primary source) rather than citing other people who cite something.
Video of famous events can help reveal first-hand information about the event, much like photos.
An example of a video recording that can act as a primary source is CTV footage. This may be usable, for example, in the court of law, and can hold sway when convicting someone.
For videos and photographs, however, it’s important to think about what’s outside of the frame of the scene. Even a primary source needs to be examined critically.
Primary sources are generally believed to be more authoritative than secondary sources. However, they’re also very difficult to interpret, making secondary sources necessary.
Furthermore, different scholarly, academic, and journalistic traditions will have different ideas about what a primary source really is. As a result, some of the examples of primary sources in this list will not be suitable in all traditions.
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Once you’ve chosen the topic for your essay , you need to start thinking about writing it. A list of credible sources is what you are going to need in the first place.
So, we suggest you look into different types of academic sources existing out there!
An essay is not exactly an academic genre. It’s not so strict-ruled and rigid. Still, the use of reliable and secure sources makes your piece wholesome.
Here are the reasons why it’s essential:
There is an endless variety of information, both online and offline. How to find what you need? The answer is simple: you just need to know precisely what to search for.
Various sources can fit different purposes and types of works. Let’s dig deeper into their specification!
A primary source is direct, original data designed for further study and analysis. Such sources provide firsthand, authentic information related to an event, phenomenon, or any other subject.
Examples of primary sources are:
These materials serve as a fundamental base for diverse types of researches. Primary sources are of wide use in historical or literary analysis. Scientific studies and critical commentaries also need primary sources.
There’s a wide range of purposes for which various primary sources serve:
Secondary sources are on the second level of the authenticity hierarchy. It means someone has already processed the data, analyzed, or critiqued it.
That doesn’t make secondary sources worse or less valid, though. Let’s have a closer look at the examples:
Secondary sources are usually interpretive. They tend to analyze already existing information pieces. That’s why one can find them in all sorts of scholarly works, surveys, and articles.
So, secondary sources are directly related to the primary sources – they use them.
Tertiary sources can be defined as a compilation of both primary and secondary sources together. It includes a thorough summary of organized information and its background.
Look at the examples to grasp the idea:
A tertiary source lets you get easy and fast access to a large amount of data. They are accommodating for extensive surveys and researches.
Any document or piece of information can be primary, secondary, or tertiary.
It depends on the way you treat it.
Your exact question and a research focus play a decisive role while identifying the sources.
Let’s get a more precise understanding of this with the help of some good examples.
If you’re exploring the effects of the Civil War, the to work with are documentaries dedicated to it. If you research how the effects are presented in the documentaries, these films become the | |
If your essay focuses on Walter Whitman’s poetry, the reviews and interpretations of his works are the . But if you study how the critics accepted his poetry, those reviews serve as the . | |
Catalogs and indexes in any data analysis refer to It may be that your goal is to analyze the book heritage of a particular library. In that case, the catalog of the books stored in the library is your | |
If your research question is about the life and art of , a biopic about Rockwell is the , while a Wikipedia article is the . But if you are exploring how artists’ biographies are presented on the Internet, Wikipedia may become your . | |
Let’s imagine that the research has to explore how different countries display their birth and death statistics. Such an approach makes databases and statistical compendiums your , though usually they are considered . |
We hope you are now more confident with primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
Now let’s get to the rules of defining a list of credible sources.
It’s essential to be picky and attentive when it comes to source selection! Don’t fall upon any text you encounter online, especially if the website isn’t reliable enough.
How to Find Credible Sources?
We suggest you a checklist for recognizing the most valid sources:
Anyway, the best way to make your paper decent and solid is to double-check all the data you use. Take as a rule analyzing and reflecting upon everything you read.
Now you know the very fundamentals of working with the sources, it’s time to move on.
The following section is about the types of primary sources.
Are you excited enough to find out what types of primary sources exist there?
We offer a list of five types of primary sources that are used pretty often. However, there are many more primary sources out there to study.
Is it time to write a primary source essay yet?
Let’s learn how to deal with the primary sources analysis essay in this section.
Keep on reading what we have prepared to master writing essays with reliable sources!
A primary source essay is writing where you widely and frequently cite primary sources. You have to reflect upon them, analyze, and use them as a foundation for your arguments. For example, it can be an analysis essay studying the logic of literary devices used in the Iliad.
Here are the examples we’ve prepared for you for a better understanding:
You already understand how to use primary sources in your writing. It’s time to comprehend the whole process of writing a primary source essay format in detail.
Are you ready?
To ensure that a source is reliable and meets all the demands, you should conduct preliminary analysis . Any piece of information and external factors are worth your attention here.
Use this checklist to make yourself sure about source credibility:
Are you most likely to have a keen desire to sound persuasive to the audience? Let the readers comprehend the primary focus of research. Give a brief description of the main idea, state a thesis and your opinion before going into details.
We have approached the central and the most supplemented part of the essay – its body.
It’s time to go all-in now.
In the central part of the analysis, you should use meticulous details and a thorough description of the essence.
Observe the fundamental points:
It’s the right moment to wind up with your primary source essay.
The process doesn’t differ much from that of any other type of essay. The peculiarities of the conclusion may vary depending on the research question.
The final step is to cite primary sources properly. There can be a great variety of them. For instance, you may have to cite primary sources from a book or website.
It may happen that you’ll have to cite sources both inside the text and in the bibliography list:
We’ll give you examples of how to cite a book or refer to a picture you use in the text.
The citation appears right in the text.
Frank Cowperwood, even at ten, was a natural-born leader. (Dreiser 1912, 3) | |
These thoughts were in my mind as I gazed on the legendary figure of Ubertino. (Eco, 1980/1992)* *The citation includes both the year it was and . | |
(image) | Matisse, Henri. Goldfish. 1911. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia. |
Let’s see how to cite a source in the bibliography list now.
If you are at this point, you know how to write an excellent primary source analysis essay. You definitely got an idea of how to cite primary sources for it.
It’s a good deal of work!
Now you wonder where to find good sources, do you?
No worries, we’ve prepared a list of reliable and trustworthy websites for you:
Scholar.google.com Directory of Open Access Journals Aosis Open Journals Taylor & Francis Copernicus Publications F1000Research Highwire free online full-text articles Hindawi Publishing Corporation Open Book Publishers Open Edition PeerJ Public Library of Science Sage The Company of Biologists
MIT Libraries Harvard Library Databases Yale Digital Collections Center University of Hawaii Library Columbia University Libraries
Dovepress Academic Journals Open Library (JSTOR’s project) National Agricultural Library AGRIS Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Arachne (Archaeology, Art History database) Arnetminer (Computer Science database) arXiv Cornell University Library
Hopefully, you’ll have no problem accessing the academic sources you need.
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Primary sources are the most important tools for research in any field. In the humanities, primary sources might include works of literature, journals or letters. Newspaper articles, journals and telegraphs might be primary sources for historical study. The sciences might look at original studies. Analyzing these sources can provide a starting point for one's own research, helping to situate it within a historical context, identify areas for needed research or to support a thesis.
Research the author and learn everything you can about his background and potential bias. Even if a primary source was not written with an agenda in mind, an author's upbringing, education, social status, religion and other biographical details can all influence the ideas being presented in the source. For example, knowing that an author was exceptionally wealthy may undermine the argument put forth in a treatise dismissing the plight of the poor. By learning everything you can about the author, you can identify potential biases.
Consider the author's relationship to the material. For example, a letter or article that is describing the details of a battle is considered much more reliable if it was written by a person who saw the events firsthand. A letter or article describing something that someone else related may not be as reliable. An exception may be made for newspaper articles that traditionally rely on interviews with witnesses to produce the report.
Learn the intended audience for the piece. A private journal entry may be considered more reliable in some cases because the author was only writing for himself and had no reason to shape the information to elicit a certain response. An article that was written for a special interest group may be considered less reliable since it might be written to appeal to the biases of that group. Knowing the audience can help you determine any bias or ulterior motive in the source material.
Place the source in historical context. A letter that argues for the legalization of same-sex marriage may not be considered shocking if it was written in 2014. However, that same letter written in 1814 would be considered radical in almost any society. You must put the source in context of historical events and cultural mores. You should also identify any events that might have influenced the writing of the material, such as an essay written in response to economic changes after a war. You should also identify the influence that the source material had, if any. While a work may seem provocative, your research may show that there was no cultural response at the time of its publication.
Analyze the intent of the material. Determine if the source was written to simply provide a record of events, such as a newspaper article or historical account, or whether it was written to interpret or analyze events to put forth an argument. If the author intended to advance an argument with the material, that will change the way you evaluate the source, including whether the argument was successful and what biases are contained in it.
Inspect the physical document if it is available. You can learn a lot of information from the clues you find there. For example, if a letter is found to have water damage, it could mean that the author cried while writing it. If a letter is written on expensive paper, it could be evidence of wealth. These clues can provide more information about the author, the historical context or even the intent of the writing. Inspecting the physical document can also help you to determine its authenticity. If you can't access the original document, use other tools at your disposal to determine the authenticity of the writing, such as other historical and biographical research.
Create a thesis statement for your analysis. Once you have all the information you can gather about your primary source, you must create a strong statement that unifies your analysis. For example, your thesis may be that the writing caused a great deal of social upset at the time it was published but that it failed to have any lasting historical value. Your thesis will be determined by your research.
Answer these questions about your source in the analysis. Be as thorough as you can be. You may not have arrived at a clear answer for all questions about your source, but you should be thorough in explaining what you did uncover. Don't just provide historical and biographical details. Provide context and interpret your results, showing what influence or importance the information has.
Provide supporting details. If you were able to access an original document, provide a photocopy of it. Include a works cited page that includes your primary source and any secondary sources you used to research it, such as biographies, historical accounts and other research into the material.
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This essay is about the essential principles and best practices for creating a comprehensive bibliography. It emphasizes the importance of a bibliography in academic writing for ensuring transparency and giving credit to original authors. The essay outlines the need to adhere to specific citation styles, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard, and stresses the significance of meticulous note-taking and organized documentation. It discusses the correct ordering of entries, attention to detail in formatting, and the potential value of annotated bibliographies. Additionally, the essay highlights the usefulness of citation management tools while cautioning against relying solely on them without manual verification. Ultimately, it underscores the importance of a well-constructed bibliography in enhancing the credibility of scholarly work.
How it works
A well-structured bibliography shows off the scope of your research and provides readers with a guide to help them find the original sources. It is a crucial part of writing for academic purposes. A bibliography is a crucial part of scholarly writing that goes beyond simple adherence to guidelines. It ensures that the original authors are given due credit and displays the variety of books you have studied. This essay examines the principles and suggested procedures for gathering a thorough bibliography, highlighting the significance of this kind of work and the laborious process required to achieve precision and consistency.
Priority one should be given to comprehending the function of a bibliography. It is a comprehensive inventory of all the materials—books, journal articles, webpages, and other media—that helped shape your work. By listing these sources, you provide your readers with transparency and enable them to check the facts and delve deeper into the subject. Additionally, by explicitly identifying the sources of your ideas and data, a well-written bibliography helps you avoid plagiarism.
Following the particular citation style specified by your academic institution or publication is one of the most important things to keep in mind while creating a bibliography. Common styles have different formats and guidelines, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard. It is important to familiarize oneself with the rules of the selected style. For example, MLA emphasizes author-page number citations, but APA style usually stresses the author-date format. Applying these rules consistently is essential to preserving the caliber of your work as a professional.
The first step in creating a bibliography is taking thorough notes. It is essential that you take note of every pertinent data from each source while you conduct your research. These specifics typically consist of the name of the author, the work’s title, the publisher, the publication date, and, in the case of journal articles, the volume and issue numbers. Extra details are needed for digital sources, like the URL and the access date. Having well-organized notes will make producing a bibliography easier and less likely to leave out important details.
The arrangement of the things in your bibliography is a crucial factor to take into account. The majority of reference styles mandate that sources be arranged alphabetically by last name of the author. An author’s citations in several books should be listed chronologically in the entries. The pieces are sorted alphabetically by the work’s title if the author is unknown. It is simple for readers to look through the list and locate particular sources thanks to this methodical approach.
A superb bibliography is one that meticulously considers every aspect. This means accurately transcribing material and using the proper format and punctuation. For example, book and journal titles are typically italicized or emphasized, but article titles are surrounded by quote marks. According to the rules, all parts of a citation, such as the author’s name, title, and publishing details, must be punctuated correctly. Careful proofreading is essential since even the smallest errors can undermine the trustworthiness of your work.
It can be helpful to provide an annotation in addition to a list of sources in your bibliography. An annotated bibliography consists of summaries or evaluations of the references. These comments, which describe the accuracy, dependability, and quality of each source, can assist readers understand the context and significance of your references. Even though it requires more time to complete, an annotated bibliography demonstrates a deeper engagement with the material and can enhance the overall impact of your research.
Technology is a useful tool for compiling a bibliography. To assist with organizing and formatting your references, there are a variety of citation management programs available, including Mendeley, EndNote, and Zotero. These applications can organize your sources, create citations automatically in a variety of styles, and work flawlessly with word processing programs. It is not suggested to rely exclusively on these tools, though, as manual verification is still required to guarantee accuracy and adherence to particular formatting guidelines.
In summary, creating an extensive bibliography highlights the scientific rigor of your work and is a laborious but worthwhile procedure. It necessitates paying close attention to specifics, following citation guidelines, and arranging and recording sources in an orderly manner. By devoting the necessary time and energy to producing a precise and organized bibliography, you enhance the authority of your study and add to the body of knowledge within the academic community. Whether you are an experienced researcher or a rookie scholar, learning the craft of producing a bibliography is a crucial ability that will benefit you in both your academic and professional endeavors.
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Subcollections in primary source databases, digital collections, modern news sources, leni-lenape primary sources: colonial narratives, leni-lenape primary sources: oral histories.
In humanities disciplines like history and literature, a primary source is an item produced from the time you are researching (e.g., photographs, a letters, newspaper articles, government documents). Looking at actual sources from a specific time helps you get a firsthand account of what was happening then.
In the sciences and social sciences, research data and original research studies are also considered primary sources.
Secondary sources provide analysis of primary sources (e.g., scholarly articles and books).
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Oral histories are important sources of history and narrative in many Native American cultures and traditions. These examples bring to the forefront Indigenous perspectives and traditions.
Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences.
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In 2010—well before the rise of ChatGPT and Claude and all the other sprightly, conversational AI models—an army of bots briefly wiped out $1 trillion of value across the NASDAQ and other stock exchanges. Lengthy investigations were undertaken to figure out what had happened and why—and how to prevent it from happening again. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s report on the matter blamed high-frequency-trading algorithms unexpectedly engaging in a mindless “hot potato” buying and selling of contracts back and forth to one another.
A “flash crash,” as the incident was called, may seem quaint relative to what lies ahead. That’s because, even amid all the AI hype, a looming part of the AI revolution is under-examined: “agents.” Agents are AIs that act independently on behalf of humans. As the 2010 flash crash showed, automated bots have been in use for years. But large language models can now translate plain-language goals, expressed by anyone, into concrete instructions that are interpretable and executable by a computer—not just in a narrow, specialized realm such as securities trading, but across the digital and physical worlds at large. Such agents are hard to understand, evaluate, or counter, and once set loose, they could operate indefinitely.
For all of today’s concern about AI safety , including potentially existential risks , there’s been no particular general alarm or corresponding regulation around these emerging AI agents. There have been thought experiments about an AI given (or setting for itself) an arbitrary and seemingly harmless goal, such as to manufacture as many paper clips as possible, only to cause disaster when it diverts all of humanity’s resources toward that goal. But well short of having to confront a speculative monomaniacal superintelligence, we must attend to more pressing if prosaic problems, caused by decidedly nonspeculative contemporary agents. These can mess up, either through the malice of those who get them going, or accidentally, monkey’s-paw style, when commissioned with a few ill-chosen words. For example, Air Canada recently experienced the latter when it set up a chatbot for customer assistance with a prompt to be helpful, along with access to the Air Canada website for use in answering customer questions. The bot helpfully explained a policy on bereavement fares in a way far more generous than the airline’s actual policy. Air Canada tried to repudiate the bot’s promises, and failed : A tribunal held that the customer was owed compensation.
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Today’s agents add up to more than a typical chatbot, with three distinct qualities. First, they can be given a high-level, even vague goal and independently take steps to bring it about, through research or work of their own. The idea is simple but powerful. For example, a year ago, an enterprising techie developed an AI that could order a pizza for him. He relied on software tools developed by companies such as OpenAI to create a “top-level AI” that could charter and command other AIs. That top-level AI was provided a goal—order a pepperoni pizza by voice from a given phone number—and then it went on to create its own task list and develop different versions of itself to perform those tasks, including prioritizing different steps in the list and producing a version of itself that was able to use a text-to-voice converter to make the phone call. Thus the AI was able to find and call a local pizzeria and place the order.
That demonstrates a second quality of agents beyond planning to meet a goal: They can interact with the world at large, using different software tools at will, as you might when opening Excel or placing a DoorDash order while also browsing the web. With the invitation and blessing of companies such as OpenAI, generative-AI models can take in information from the outside world and, in turn, affect it. As OpenAI says , you can “connect GPTs to databases, plug them into emails, or make them your shopping assistant. For example, you could integrate a travel listings database, connect a user’s email inbox, or facilitate e-commerce orders.” Agents could also accept and spend money.
This routinization of AI that doesn’t simply talk with us, but also acts out in the world, is a crossing of the blood-brain barrier between digital and analog, bits and atoms. That should give us pause.
A non-AI example jumps to mind as a nefarious road map for what may lie ahead. Last year, a man left a bag conspicuously containing wires and a lockbox outside Harvard Yard. Harvard police then received a call with a disguised voice warning that it was one of three bombs on campus, and that they’d all go off soon unless the university transferred money to a hard-to-trace cryptocurrency address. The bag was determined to be harmless. The threat was a hoax.
When police identified and arrested the man who left the bag, it turned out that he had answered a Craigslist ad offering money for him to assemble and bring those items to campus. The person behind that ad—and the threatening calls to Harvard—was never found. The man who placed the wires pleaded guilty only to hiding out and deleting some potentially incriminating text messages and was sentenced to probation, after the authorities credited that he was not the originator of the plot. He didn’t know that he’d joined a conspiracy to commit extortion.
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This particular event may not have involved AI, but it’s easy to imagine that an AI agent could soon be used to goad a person into following each of the steps in the Harvard extortion case, with a minimum of prompting and guidance. More worrying, such threats can easily scale far beyond what a single malicious person could manage alone; imagine whoever was behind the Harvard plot being able to enact it in hundreds or thousands of towns, all at once. The act doesn’t have to be as dramatic as a bomb threat. It could just be something like keeping an eye out for a particular person joining social media or job sites and to immediately and tirelessly post replies and reviews disparaging them.
This lays bare the third quality of AI agents: They can operate indefinitely, allowing human operators to “set it and forget it.” Agents might be hand-coded, or powered by companies who offer services the way that cemeteries offer perpetual care for graves, or that banks offer to steward someone’s money for decades at a time. Or the agents might even run on anonymous computing resources distributed among thousands of computers whose owners are, by design, ignorant of what’s running—while being paid for their computing power.
The problem here is that the AI may continue to operate well beyond any initial usefulness. There’s simply no way to know what moldering agents might stick around as circumstances change. With no framework for how to identify what they are, who set them up, and how and under what authority to turn them off, agents may end up like space junk : satellites lobbed into orbit and then forgotten. There is the potential for not only one-off collisions with active satellites, but also a chain reaction of collisions : The fragments of one collision create further collisions, and so on, creating a possibly impassable gauntlet of shrapnel blocking future spacecraft launches.
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If agents take off, they may end up operating in a world quite different from the one that first wound them up—after all, it’ll be a world with a lot of agents in it. They could start to interact with one another in unanticipated ways, just as they did in the 2010 flash crash. In that case, the bots had been created by humans but simply acted in strange ways during unanticipated circumstances. Here, agents set to translate vague goals might also choose the wrong means to achieve them: A student who asks a bot to “help me cope with this boring class” might unwittingly generate a phoned-in bomb threat as the AI attempts to spice things up. This is an example of a larger phenomenon known as reward hacking , where AI models and systems can respond to certain incentives or optimize for certain goals while lacking crucial context, capturing the letter but not the spirit of the goal.
Even without collisions, imagine a fleet of pro–Vladimir Putin agents playing a long game by joining hobbyist forums, earnestly discussing those hobbies, and then waiting for a seemingly organic, opportune moment to work in favored political talking points. Or an agent might be commissioned to set up, advertise, and deliver on an offered bounty for someone’s private information, whenever and wherever it might appear. An agent can deliver years later on an impulsive grudge—revenge is said to be a dish best served cold, and here it could be cryogenically frozen.
Much of this account remains speculative. Agents have not experienced a public boom yet, and by their very nature it’s hard to know how they’ll be used, or what protections the companies that help offer them will implement. Agentics, like much of the rest of modern technology, may have two phases: too early to tell, and too late to do anything about it.
In these circumstances, we should look for low-cost interventions that are comparatively easy to agree on and that won’t be burdensome. Yale Law School’s Ian Ayres and Jack Balkin are among the legal scholars beginning to wrestle with how we might best categorize AI agents and consider their behavior. That would have been helpful in the Air Canada case around a bot’s inaccurate advice to a customer, where the tribunal hearing the claim was skeptical of what it took to be the airline’s argument that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.” And it’s particularly important to evaluate agent-driven acts whose character depends on assessing the actor’s intentions. Suppose the agent waiting to pounce on a victim’s social-media posts doesn’t just disparage the person, but threatens them. Ayres and Balkin point out that the Supreme Court recently held that criminalizing true threats requires that the person making the threats subjectively understand that they’re inspiring fear. Some different legal approach will be required to respond up and down the AI supply chain when unthinking agents are making threats.
Technical interventions can help with whatever legal distinctions emerge. Last year, OpenAI researchers published a thoughtful paper chronicling some agentic hazards. There they broached the possibility that servers running AI bots should have to be identified, and others have made efforts to describe how that might work .
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But we might also look to refining existing internet standards to help manage this situation. Data are already distributed online through “packets,” which are labeled with network addresses of senders and receivers. These labels can typically be read by anyone along the packets’ route, even if the information itself is encrypted. There ought to be a new, special blank on a packet’s digital form to indicate that a packet has been generated by a bot or an agent, and perhaps a place to indicate something about when it was created and by whom—just like a license plate can be used to track down a car’s owner without revealing their identity to bystanders.
To allow such labels within Internet Protocol would give software designers and users a chance to choose to use them, and it would allow the companies behind, say, the DoorDash and Domino’s apps to decide whether they want to treat an order for 20 pizzas from a human differently from one placed by a bot. Although any such system could be circumvented, regulators could help encourage adoption. For example, designers and providers of agents could be offered a cap on damages for the harm their agents cause if they decide to label their agents’ online activities.
Internet routing offers a further lesson. There is no master map of the internet because it was designed for anyone to join it, not by going through a central switchboard, but by connecting to anyone already online. The resulting network is one that relies on routers—way stations—that can communicate with one another about what they see as near and what they see as far. Thus can a packet be passed along, router to router, until it reaches its destination. That does, however, leave open the prospect that a packet could end up in its own form of eternal orbit , being passed among routers forever, through mistake or bad intention. That’s why most packets have a “ time to live ,” a number that helps show how many times they’ve hopped from one router to another. The counter might start at, say, 64, and then go down by one for each router the packet passes. It dies at zero, even if it hasn’t reached its destination.
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Agents, too, could and should have a standardized way of winding down: so many actions, or so much time, or so much impact, as befits their original purpose. Perhaps agents designed to last forever or have a big impact could be given more scrutiny and review—or be required to have a license plate—while more modest ones don’t, the way bicycles and scooters don’t need license plates even as cars do, and tractor trailers need even more paperwork. These interventions focus less on what AI models are innately capable of in the lab, and more on what makes agentic AI different: They act in the real world, even as their behavior is represented on the network.
It is too easy for the blinding pace of modern tech to make us think that we must choose between free markets and heavy-handed regulation—innovation versus stagnation. That’s not true. The right kind of standard-setting and regulatory touch can make new tech safe enough for general adoption—including by allowing market players to be more discerning about how they interact with one another and with their customers.
“Too early to tell” is, in this context, a good time to take stock, and to maintain our agency in a deep sense. We need to stay in the driver’s seat rather than be escorted by an invisible chauffeur acting on its own inscrutable and evolving motivations, or on those of a human distant in time and space.
This essay is adapted from Jonathan Zittrain’s forthcoming book on humanity both gaining power and losing control.
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Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the American Legal Realist (ALR) arguments for the indeterminacy of law and legal reasoning: how can those arguments be limited, as I claim, to mostly appellate cases? The key, I argue, is to recognize that (1) the central ALR argument for indeterminacy appeals to the existence of equally "legitimate" but conflicting ways of interpreting valid sources of law, and (2) the relevant notion of "legitimacy" is sociological (i.e., what is actually accepted by lawyers and judges). The ALR argument for indeterminacy being most apparent at the appellate level is then an empirical claim, which the ALRs supported with extensive evidence in many areas of law. I also consider Green's suggestion that ALR takes most sources to be "permissive sources" (in Hart's sense), and criticize some misunderstandings of both ALR and Scandinavian Realism.
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