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tertiary source
noun
A selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both.
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But if "Wide Awake" is only a secondary or tertiary source on sleep science, it's a fine firsthand look at insomniac eccentricities.
"There's this consensus that ESPN has a liberal bent, and half the country isn't liberal," says Harriss. "But it's very difficult to parse out how much of the ratings decline is due to internet competition versus the political reporting". He says that political content is likely a tertiary source of ESPN's shifting ratings.
Similar to Abu Hanifa and Malik, he developed a tertiary source of legislation.
Malik developed a tertiary source called al-maslahah al-mursalah, which means that which is in the best interests of the general public.
Right: no you've put it off long enough now, that essay was set three weeks ago and now it's due, you've put a day aside, you're going to focus, crack the back of it, source and secondary source and tertiary source, really up that overall grade, edge it up to a 2 1, Let's Do This.
Conclusions Many publications are citing information from a tertiary source that can be edited by anyone, although permanent, evidence based sources are available.
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Encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries are good examples of tertiary sources.
There's always indirect power in those songs, tertiary sourcing, hidden juice.
Students aren't experts, but tertiary sources give them expert info right from the start.
Where secondary sources summarize and interpret an event or phenomenon, tertiary sources summarize and interpret other resources.
To find tertiary sources, take a look at the library's collection of online encyclopedias & almanacs, or dictionaries, thesauri, & quotations.
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