Cosmetology: Esthetic - Calderon

Primary Research Sources are:

• Researchers reporting first-hand about their new research
• Includes some Journal articles and some Books (or chapters in books)

Primary research articles describe an original experiment or original analysis that adds to current knowledge about a particular topic. 

Typically, Primary journal articles include:

• Abstract/Summary
• Introduction 
• Methods/Methods & Materials 
• Results 
• Discussion 
• Conclusion 

Read the Abstract/Summary & Methods or Methods and Materials Section as a quick check to see if an article may be primary, if the researchers describe their new research it is a primary article.

Secondary Sources summarize, analyze or report the work of other researchers.