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Political Science: Tertiary Sources

"Tertiary Sources are books and articles that synthesize secondary sources for general readers. They include textbooks, encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), and dictionaries, as well as articles in publications for broad audiences, like Time and Atlantic. In the early stages of research, you can use tertiary sources to get a broad overview of your topic. But if you are making a scholarly argument, you should rely on secondary sources because these make up the conversation in which you are seeking to participate. If you cite tertiary sources in a scholarly argument, you will mark yourself as a novice or outsider, and many readers won't take you - or your argument - seriously."

Chicago Manual of Style, 2018, Section 1.3.1, page 28

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Databases

Individual Titles

News and Magazines

Databases

Individual Titles