Organizing Information from Secondary Sources

Biography is a secondary source that gives the readers information about a person’s experiences. This can be a compilation of a person’s life journey in chronological order.

Example: The Rise and Fall of Imelda Marcos by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa

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Nonfiction Books are intended, in good faith, to present only truth and accuracy regarding information, events or people.

Example: Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture by Doreen G. Fernandez (Farner, Geir (2014).

"Chapter 2: What is Literary Fiction?". Literary Fiction: The Ways We Read Narrative Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781623564261 retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfiction).

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Almanac is a kind of secondary source that shows an annual publication listing a set of events forth coming in the next year. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar.

Example: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2020 by Jansen Sarah

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Atlas is another secondary source of information. This is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or a region of Earth.

Example: Blaeu’s World Map by Joan Blaeu published in the first book of the Atlas Van Loon (1664) (Retrieved from https://www.yourdictionary.com/atlas)

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Dictionary is a reference book that gives all kinds of information about words.

Example: The Meriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved from Joy in Learning English 6 Textbook p177.

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