Sources

 What is a source?

A source provides information about a specific topic. A source can be a person, e.g an expert in a certain subject, or a book, manual or the internet.

Examples of Sources can include:

• Archives and manuscript material
• Photographs, audio recordings, video recordings, films
• Journals, letters and diaries
• Speeches
• Scrapbooks
• Published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time
• Government publications
• Records of organizations
• Autobiographies and memoirs
• Research data, e.g. public opinion polls
• Textbooks
• Dictionaries and encyclopaedias
• Books that interpret, analyse
• Political commentary
• Biographies
• Dissertations
• Newspaper editorial/opinion pieces
• Criticism of literature, art works or music

Here's a video that goes into more detail:

Different sources are needed for different uses such as if you want to write an article on someone, you'd look into a biography or journal to get a personal detail of their life where as you'd use photographs of someone if your making a photo collage of someone and would use their photographs to use for that collage rather then using something such as a water source.

Why is a Source useful?

A source can be useful as it helps provide us with reliable information for our projects and data for our stuff. This is useful as it helps us provide evidence for any statements or helps provide us with the facts to further our points.