Personal Communications

Transcripts from interviews, phone conversations, and email exchanges can all be valid sources of information for a research paper, depending upon whom you speak to and what your purpose is. Many interviews are available on the Web and through archival collections. These can be used for historical research or public opinion research.

 

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Would oral history interviews be considered subjective or objective information?

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