Secondary Resources
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- Created on: 14-06-16 16:00
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- Secondary Resources
- Textbooks
- Advantage
- Will already have collected information from several places
- Purpose is to educate/ inform
- Opinion free
- Disadvanatge
- May make it easier to understand - leave out detail
- Out of date
- Example
- GCSE
- Degree
- A Level
- Advantage
- Academic Books
- Advantage
- Published - ensures credibility
- Experts/ Highly qualified authors
- Good reputation of author
- Accurate information
- Disadvantage
- Time Consuming- all the book might not be relevant
- Technical terms may have changed (if old book)
- Biased to prove personal point
- Example
- Use LRC
- Public Library
- Online Forums eg Britannica
- Advantage
- Journals
- Disadvantage
- Very technical - hard to understand
- Biased
- Advantage
- Peer reviewed
- Expert so reliable
- Good reputation
- Example
- Blog
- Online
- Hard Copies
- Disadvantage
- Website
- Advantage
- Time efficient
- More up to date (usually)
- Can go straight to what you are looking for
- Example
- Blogs
- Academic websites
- Disadvantage
- Anyone can edit
- May be out of date
- Advantage
- Newspaper & Magazines
- Advantage
- Care about reputation - won't have false information
- Articles by professionals
- Interviews/ quotes
- Disadvanatge
- Journalist may not be an expert
- Biased/ controvercial
- Exaggeration - to make it sound more interesting
- Example
- Online
- Paper copy
- Advantage
- Textbooks
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