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Contemporary Issues - refers to an event, idea, opinion, topic, or…

- - - - Primary Sources- the origin of the information is an original account of happenings that were written or made by the person who had experienced them.
        
        diaries
        
        autobiographies
        
        political cartoons
        
        speeches
        
        documents
        
        government reports
        
        witness reports
        
        photos
        
        quotes from interviews
        
        personal accounts
        
        drawings
        
        letters
      - Secondary sources – are information or interpretations based on the primary origin or other secondary sources and prepared or written by persons who are not involved in the narrated events.
        
        books
        
        biographies
        
        editorials
        
        summaries of interviews
        
        commentaries
        
        encyclopedias
        
        news reports
        
        hearsay reports
        
        stories of non-witness
        
        survey results
        
        articles
    - - Fact- an actual event, experience, or observation that really occurred and is supported by evidence or data.
      - Opinion- an idea, supposition, impression, or conjecture.
    - - Bias- prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair
      - In analyzing information, related to the social sciences, there is a need to know that it does not favor anyone,
      - The presentation of the information should be balanced.
      - There is a need to present the good as well as the bad side of the issue.
    - - Inference- a thought-out of theory or an uneducated guess about something.
      - Generalization- involves a mental process where one connects information to make a summary statement.
      - Conclusion- a statement that describes the relationship among information or data after a careful study, observation, and analysis of important evidence or body of knowledge.