If you use one of these in your research, it is probably a primary source.
Some types of source are nearly always primary: works of art and literature, raw statistical data, official documents and records, and personal communications (e.g.
If you, as an editor, choose to place your author’s footnotes at the end of the text, they become endnotes.To determine if a source is primary or secondary, ask yourself: Footnotes go in the footer of a page, endnotes go at the end of the text. 2 Merriam-Webster highlights the word “usually” because sometimes footnotes are placed at the end of a text and yet are confusingly not renamed “endnotes.” In my professional opinion, this is a less than desirable practice, so we are going to pretend it’s not a Thing that even University presses do on occasion. On the other hand we have footnotes, which are usually placed beneath the main text but on the same page as the superscript notation. Sometimes endnotes are at the end of a chapter, but this is rare - which is good, because that’s even more annoying than having to flip to the end of an entire text. (Merriam-Webster 2022) Reading endnotes requires flipping to the end of the text for the additional context, and usually involves using two bookmarks - one for your place in the text and one for your place in the endnotes. According to Merriam-Webster, “endnote” is a fairly self-explanatory word referring to notes placed at the end of a text. Gather ’round, fellow nerd friends, while we throw down over one of the longest-running tensions known to students everywhere: which method is superior, the footnote or the endnote? Because I only have one article in which to make my case, I’m skipping the part where we argue vociferously for one specific citation method over the other. Grammar/punctuation/word nerds love a good debate. 1 (Coen 2010) Literally everyone was disgusted that cheesecake - the clearest combination of both - won the day. In my favorite example, Jezebel famously pitted cake against pie. But Americans love a bracket showdown, so over the years, March has become the month for all kinds of debates about which thing is best out of two related categories.
Originally, “March Madness” was a term for ::checks notes:: the U.S. It’s March, and if you live in the United States, you know that means only one thing: it’s time for March Madness.
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