Not all sources are created equal. Imagine
you are writing a paper on the problems of cliques in schools.
Your teacher has encouraged you to use a balance of primary and
secondary sources. The following sources appear on your
various result lists. Rank them in terms of their relative
value to your paper. Consider which you could most easily
defend if your teacher questioned their value. (For discussion:
Would your rankings change depending on the type of project you
were doing?) There are no right or wrong answers. The
most important thing is to think seriously about the sources you
use for research.
| Description of
Source |
Rank and Reason |
Primary (P)
/Secondary(S) |
|
| "The Curse of
Cliques" an article from Time Magazine 5/3/99 |
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| Cliques I Joined, an
AOL page about online clubs created by a student |
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| "Clique" definition
Webster's New World Thesaurus, Third Edition |
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| "How Peer
Pressure Can Affect You," Current Health,
9/1/99 |
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| Transcript of a
speech by the Secretary of Education relating cliques to
school violence |
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| Transcript of an ABC
Good Morning America interview with a parenting expert
and five middle school students. The students
discuss the impact of cliques on their schools. |
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| Email from a middle
school parent , concerned about her daughter, on the
Question and Answer section of the ParentSoup web page |
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| An encyclopedia
article on cliques |
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