Most Common Evidence Used by Authors

Humanities: Literature, Art, Film, Music, Philosophy

• Critical essays that analyze other original works
• Details from an image, a film, or other work of art
• Passages from a musical composition
• Passages of text, including poetry

Humanities: History

• Primary Sources (photos, letters, maps, official documents, etc.)
• Other books or articles that interpret primary sources or other evidence.

Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology

• Books or articles that interpret data and results from other people’s original experiments or studies.
• Results from field research (including interviews, surveys, observations, etc.)
• Data from their own experiments
• Statistics

Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Physics

• Data from their own experiments
• Books or articles that interpret data and results from other people’s original experiments or studies.