PSY309H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Citation Impact, Secondary Source, Systematic Review
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Literature includes historical studies, major branching points and current research. Research literature: the what and why: scholarship is conversation, research is inquiry: an iterative process, research is about telling story, so looking at existing literature is seeing what the story is. Primary sources: a primary source in science is the rst normal publication of new research by those who carried it out, usually in scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. Secondary sources: secondary sources summarize, reinterpret, re-analyze or discuss information from primary source. For example, review articles in scholarly, peer- reviewed journals, science magazine articles, or books. Tertiary sources: tertiary sources digest and condense information from both primary and secondary sources, such as dictionary de nitions, encyclopedia entries, textbook. We are taking our way back into the making of the research paper. Part of scholarly publication is delay! everything takes time, for something to become proper primary source it has to go through many processes.
