Secondary Sources – Books of Words and Phrases
Test your knowledge
Click the links below to answer some questions on what you've learned in this module. These questions are just for practice: your results will not be recorded by the system.
- Activity 1 – Secondary Sources (multiple choice and true/false)
- Activity 2 – Research Steps & Sources (drag-and-drop)
- Activity 3 – Statute Titles & Citations (drag-and-drop)
- Activity 4 – Statute Titles & Citations 2 (drag-and-drop)
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Congratulations!
You've finished Secondary Sources, a learning module designed by law librarians at the Brian Dickson Law Library.
You should now be able to:
- Understand and appreciate the importance of secondary material to a proper legal research methodology;
- Identify the most relevant types of secondary sources given a specific legal problem;
- Locate, use and benefit from:
- textbooks, treatises and legal dictionaries;
- legal encyclopedias;
- government documents; and
- other sources of legal commentary.
- Know the leading secondary source material to use (Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, LegalTrac, etc.) to conduct legal research.
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