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.