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Wise Types of sources

Secondary sources come next in the cycle, in the form of books and journal articles. Secondary sources analyse, critique, evaluate and interpret primary sources.

In the case of the Rainbow Warrior incident and nuclear testing in the Pacific, examples of secondary sources are:

 

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History Book written about the Rainbow Warrior incident. Primary sources are acknowledged. Death of the Rainbow Warrior, by Michael King. Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 1986.
Law/politics Article written in a scholarly journal (not peer-reviewed). Primary sources are acknowledged. Thakur, Ramesh. A dispute of many colours: France, New Zealand and the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ affair. The World Today 42 (12) 1986.
Science Article written in a scholarly journal. (peer-reviewed)
Primary sources are acknowledged. 		The use of nuclear methods for the examination of coral samples from Mururoa Atoll for plutonium content, Ellis, W.R. International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part D. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 12 (1-6) 1986, 813-816.
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