{"id":725,"date":"2017-04-03T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=725"},"modified":"2017-04-13T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:49:24","slug":"sources-to-meet-needs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/chapter\/sources-to-meet-needs\/","title":{"raw":"Sources to Meet Needs","rendered":"Sources to Meet Needs"},"content":{"raw":"Because there are several categories of sources (see <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/chapter\/categorizing-sources\/\">Types of Sources<\/a>), the options you have to meet your information needs can seem complex.\r\n\r\n<b>Our best advice is to pay attention to when only primary and secondary sources are required to meet a need and to when only professional and scholarly sources will work.<\/b> If your research paper is in the arts, also pay attention to when you can or must use popular sources.\r\n\r\nThese descriptions and summaries of when to use what kind of resource should help.\r\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 285px\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_917\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"275\"]<img class=\"wp-image-917 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1547\/2017\/04\/03155743\/binoculars.png\" alt=\"A pair of binoculars\" width=\"275\" height=\"182\" \/> Get a good look at your topic through background reading.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h1>To Learn Background Information<\/h1>\r\nWhen you first get a research assignment and perhaps for a considerable time afterward, you will almost always have to learn some background information as you develop your research question and explore how to answer it.\r\n\r\nSources from any category and from any subgroup within a category can meet students\u2019 need to learn background information and understand a variety of perspectives\u2014except journal articles, which are usually too specific to be background. From easy-to-understand to more complex sources, read and\/or view those that advance your knowledge and understanding.\r\n\r\nFor instance, especially while you are getting started, secondary sources that synthesize an event or work of art and tertiary sources such as guidebooks can be a big help. Wikipedia is a good tertiary source of background information.\r\n\r\nSources you use for background information don\u2019t have to be sources that you cite in your final report, although some may be.\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<b>Resources to Learn Background Information<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Either\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Format: <\/b>Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nOne important reason for finding background information is to learn the language that professionals and scholars have used when writing about your research question. (It will help you later, particularly when you\u2019re searching for sources to answer your research question.)\r\n\r\nTo identify that language, you can always type the word glossary and then the discipline for which you\u2019re doing your assignment in the search engine search box.\r\n\r\nHere are two examples to try:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl\">Glossary neuroscience<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl\">Glossary \u201csocial media marketing\u201d<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n(Putting a phrase in quotes in most search boxes insures that the phrase will be searched rather than individual words.)\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_930\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\"]<img class=\"wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/question.png\" alt=\"A conversation bubble with a question mark in the center\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/> Your research question may call for qualitative or quantitative sources.[\/caption]\r\n<h1>To Answer Your Research Question<\/h1>\r\nYou have to be much more picky with sources to meet this need because only certain choices can do the job. Whether you can use quantitative or qualitative data depends on what your research question itself calls for.\r\n\r\nOnly primary and secondary sources (from the category called publication mode) can be used to answer your research question and, in addition, those need to be professional and\/or scholarly sources for most disciplines (humanities, social sciences, and sciences). But the arts often accept popular sources as primary or secondary sources to answer research questions. Also, the author\u2019s purpose for most disciplines should be to educate and inform or, for the arts, to entertain and perhaps even to sell. (As you may remember, primary sources are those created at the same time as an event you are researching or that offer something original, such as an original performance or a journal article reporting original research. Secondary sources analyze or otherwise react to secondary sources. Because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/chapter\/publication-formats-and-the-information-cycle\/\">information cycle<\/a>, the latest secondary sources are often the best because their creators\u2019 have had time for better analysis and more information to incorporate.)\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n<h3><strong>Example:<\/strong> Quantitative or Qualitative Data<\/h3>\r\nSuppose your research question is \u201cHow did the previous king of Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah) work to modernize his country?\u201d\r\n\r\nThat question may lend itself to qualitative descriptive judgments\u2014about what are considered the components of modernization, including, for instance, what were his thoughts about the place of women in society.\r\n\r\nBut it may also be helped by some quantitative data, such as those that would let you compare the numbers of women attending higher education when Abdullah became king and those attending at the time of his death and whether manufacturing increased while he reigned.\r\n\r\nSo looking for sources that provide both quantitative and qualitative information (not necessarily in the same resource) is usually a good idea.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nIf it is not clear to you from the formats of sources you are assigned to read for your course, ask your professor which formats are acceptable to your discipline for answering your research question.\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<b>Resources to Answer Your Research Question<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Will be determined by the question itself<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Professional and scholarly for most disciplines; the arts often use popular, as well<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Professional and scholarly for most disciplines; the arts often use popular, as well<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Primary and secondary<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those acceptable to your discipline<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_936\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\"]<img class=\"wp-image-936 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/seal-1.png\" alt=\"A seal of approval\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/> Sources that meet the approval of your audience will be more convincing.[\/caption]\r\n<h1>To Describe the Situation<\/h1>\r\nConvincing your audience is similar to convincing yourself and takes the same kinds of sources\u2014as long as your audience is made up of people like you and your professor, which is often true in academic writing. That means using many of those sources you used to answer your research question.\r\n\r\nWhen your audience isn\u2019t very much like you and your professor, you can adjust your choice of sources to meet this need. Perhaps you will include more that are secondary sources rather than primary, some that are popular or professional rather than scholarly, and some whose author intent may not be to educate and inform.\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<b>Resources to Convince Your Audience<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative Data:<\/b> Same as what you used to answer your research question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, use what is convincing to them.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Those with the purpose(s) you used to answer your research question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, you may be better off including some sources intended to entertain or sell.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Those with the same expertise level as you used to answer the question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, you may be better off including some popular.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Mode:<\/b> Primary and secondary if your audience is like you and your professor. If you have a different audience, you may be better off including more secondary sources than primary.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those acceptable your discipline, if your audience is like you and your professor.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_924\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"250\"]<img class=\"wp-image-924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/hands-frame.png\" alt=\"two hands forming a viewing frame\" width=\"250\" height=\"240\" \/> Use sources to frame the situation.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nChoosing what kinds of sources you\u2019ll need to meet this need is pretty simple\u2014you should almost always use what\u2019s going to be clear and compelling to your audience. Nonetheless, sources intended to educate and inform may play an out-sized role here.\r\n\r\nBut even then, they don\u2019t have to educate and inform formally, which opens the door to using sources such as fiction or the other arts and formats that you might not use with some other information needs.\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<b>Resources to Describe the Situation<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Often to educate and inform, but sources don\u2019t have to do that formally here so they can also be to entertain or sell<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_920\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"275\"]<img class=\"wp-image-920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/bubbles.png\" alt=\"two conversation bubbles\" width=\"275\" height=\"198\" \/> Look for sources about how others have treated your research question.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"activity\">\r\n<h1>To Report What Others Have Said<\/h1>\r\nThe choices here about kinds of sources are easy: just use the same or similar sources that you used to answer your research question that you also think will be the most convincing to your audience.\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<b>Resources to Report What Others Have Said<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative: <\/b>Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">\r\n<h3><strong>Activity:<\/strong> Meeting Your Information Needs<\/h3>\r\n<div class=\"activity\">\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/library.osu.edu\/blogs\/choosingsources\/files\/2016\/07\/meetinfoneeds-ebook.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Open activity in a web browser.<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"activity\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>Because there are several categories of sources (see <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/chapter\/categorizing-sources\/\">Types of Sources<\/a>), the options you have to meet your information needs can seem complex.<\/p>\n<p><b>Our best advice is to pay attention to when only primary and secondary sources are required to meet a need and to when only professional and scholarly sources will work.<\/b> If your research paper is in the arts, also pay attention to when you can or must use popular sources.<\/p>\n<p>These descriptions and summaries of when to use what kind of resource should help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 285px\">\n<div id=\"attachment_917\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-917\" class=\"wp-image-917 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1547\/2017\/04\/03155743\/binoculars.png\" alt=\"A pair of binoculars\" width=\"275\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get a good look at your topic through background reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1>To Learn Background Information<\/h1>\n<p>When you first get a research assignment and perhaps for a considerable time afterward, you will almost always have to learn some background information as you develop your research question and explore how to answer it.<\/p>\n<p>Sources from any category and from any subgroup within a category can meet students\u2019 need to learn background information and understand a variety of perspectives\u2014except journal articles, which are usually too specific to be background. From easy-to-understand to more complex sources, read and\/or view those that advance your knowledge and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, especially while you are getting started, secondary sources that synthesize an event or work of art and tertiary sources such as guidebooks can be a big help. Wikipedia is a good tertiary source of background information.<\/p>\n<p>Sources you use for background information don\u2019t have to be sources that you cite in your final report, although some may be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><b>Resources to Learn Background Information<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Either\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\n<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\n<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\n<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Format: <\/b>Any\u2014whatever advances your knowledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One important reason for finding background information is to learn the language that professionals and scholars have used when writing about your research question. (It will help you later, particularly when you\u2019re searching for sources to answer your research question.)<\/p>\n<p>To identify that language, you can always type the word glossary and then the discipline for which you\u2019re doing your assignment in the search engine search box.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two examples to try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl\">Glossary neuroscience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl\">Glossary \u201csocial media marketing\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Putting a phrase in quotes in most search boxes insures that the phrase will be searched rather than individual words.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_930\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/question.png\" alt=\"A conversation bubble with a question mark in the center\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your research question may call for qualitative or quantitative sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>To Answer Your Research Question<\/h1>\n<p>You have to be much more picky with sources to meet this need because only certain choices can do the job. Whether you can use quantitative or qualitative data depends on what your research question itself calls for.<\/p>\n<p>Only primary and secondary sources (from the category called publication mode) can be used to answer your research question and, in addition, those need to be professional and\/or scholarly sources for most disciplines (humanities, social sciences, and sciences). But the arts often accept popular sources as primary or secondary sources to answer research questions. Also, the author\u2019s purpose for most disciplines should be to educate and inform or, for the arts, to entertain and perhaps even to sell. (As you may remember, primary sources are those created at the same time as an event you are researching or that offer something original, such as an original performance or a journal article reporting original research. Secondary sources analyze or otherwise react to secondary sources. Because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-fmcc-researchsuccess\/chapter\/publication-formats-and-the-information-cycle\/\">information cycle<\/a>, the latest secondary sources are often the best because their creators\u2019 have had time for better analysis and more information to incorporate.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<h3><strong>Example:<\/strong> Quantitative or Qualitative Data<\/h3>\n<p>Suppose your research question is \u201cHow did the previous king of Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah) work to modernize his country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That question may lend itself to qualitative descriptive judgments\u2014about what are considered the components of modernization, including, for instance, what were his thoughts about the place of women in society.<\/p>\n<p>But it may also be helped by some quantitative data, such as those that would let you compare the numbers of women attending higher education when Abdullah became king and those attending at the time of his death and whether manufacturing increased while he reigned.<\/p>\n<p>So looking for sources that provide both quantitative and qualitative information (not necessarily in the same resource) is usually a good idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If it is not clear to you from the formats of sources you are assigned to read for your course, ask your professor which formats are acceptable to your discipline for answering your research question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><b>Resources to Answer Your Research Question<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Will be determined by the question itself<\/li>\n<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Professional and scholarly for most disciplines; the arts often use popular, as well<\/li>\n<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Professional and scholarly for most disciplines; the arts often use popular, as well<\/li>\n<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Primary and secondary<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those acceptable to your discipline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_936\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-936\" class=\"wp-image-936 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/seal-1.png\" alt=\"A seal of approval\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sources that meet the approval of your audience will be more convincing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>To Describe the Situation<\/h1>\n<p>Convincing your audience is similar to convincing yourself and takes the same kinds of sources\u2014as long as your audience is made up of people like you and your professor, which is often true in academic writing. That means using many of those sources you used to answer your research question.<\/p>\n<p>When your audience isn\u2019t very much like you and your professor, you can adjust your choice of sources to meet this need. Perhaps you will include more that are secondary sources rather than primary, some that are popular or professional rather than scholarly, and some whose author intent may not be to educate and inform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><b>Resources to Convince Your Audience<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative Data:<\/b> Same as what you used to answer your research question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, use what is convincing to them.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Those with the purpose(s) you used to answer your research question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, you may be better off including some sources intended to entertain or sell.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Those with the same expertise level as you used to answer the question if your audience is like you and your professor. (If you have a different audience, you may be better off including some popular.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Mode:<\/b> Primary and secondary if your audience is like you and your professor. If you have a different audience, you may be better off including more secondary sources than primary.<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those acceptable your discipline, if your audience is like you and your professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_924\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-924\" class=\"wp-image-924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/hands-frame.png\" alt=\"two hands forming a viewing frame\" width=\"250\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Use sources to frame the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Choosing what kinds of sources you\u2019ll need to meet this need is pretty simple\u2014you should almost always use what\u2019s going to be clear and compelling to your audience. Nonetheless, sources intended to educate and inform may play an out-sized role here.<\/p>\n<p>But even then, they don\u2019t have to educate and inform formally, which opens the door to using sources such as fiction or the other arts and formats that you might not use with some other information needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><b>Resources to Describe the Situation<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Often to educate and inform, but sources don\u2019t have to do that formally here so they can also be to entertain or sell<\/li>\n<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Whatever you think will make the description most clear and compelling and your question important to your audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_920\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-image-920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/osu.pb.unizin.org\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/bubbles.png\" alt=\"two conversation bubbles\" width=\"275\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look for sources about how others have treated your research question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"activity\">\n<h1>To Report What Others Have Said<\/h1>\n<p>The choices here about kinds of sources are easy: just use the same or similar sources that you used to answer your research question that you also think will be the most convincing to your audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><b>Resources to Report What Others Have Said<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Quantitative or Qualitative: <\/b>Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Fact or Opinion:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Scholarly, Professional or Popular:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Primary, Secondary or Tertiary:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\n<li><b>Publication Format:<\/b> Those sources that you used to answer your research question that you think will be most convincing to your audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox\">\n<h3><strong>Activity:<\/strong> Meeting Your Information Needs<\/h3>\n<div class=\"activity\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.osu.edu\/blogs\/choosingsources\/files\/2016\/07\/meetinfoneeds-ebook.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Open activity in a web browser.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"activity\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-725\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Choosing &amp; 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