1. Textbooks, a secondary source if you are relying on it for the information it contains.
2. Court records, a primary source as though they provide first-hand, original information of someone or something.
3. Surveys, a primary source, the work has not been changed or analyzed by another person or organization, yet the one participating in the survey will use their own opinions to complete it.
4. Dictionaries, a tertiary source as you find basic concepts and viewpoints of topic or find/verify data.
5. Studies published in academic journals, a primary source, they include first hand data, results, and discussions.
6. Magazines can be primary or secondary depending on the focus of your research, but data collected from a source that has already been published in any form is a secondary source and magazines are mainly secondary sources, to place ads, articles, and media gossip.
7. Abstracts, a tertiary source, abstracts may be considered tertiary sources when their main purpose is to list, summarize or simply repackage ideas or other information.
8. Indices, a tertiary source, provides information about a author’s title, where it was published.
9. Newspapers, can be either primary or secondary sources. A newspaper that documents an eyewitness account of an event would be a primary source. Alternatively, a newspaper article may be research-based, which makes it a secondary source, so therefore its typically a secondary source.
10. Diaries, a primary source as they provide personal information and insights on a person who has written them.