Evidence typically used in various disciplines

Humanities: literature, art, film, music, philosophy

  • Passages of text or lines of a poem
  • Details from an image or a work of art
  • Passages of a musical composition
  • Critical essays that analyze original works

Humanities: history

  • Primary sources such as photographs, letters, maps, and government documents
  • Scholarly books and articles that interpret evidence

Social sciences: psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology

  • Data from original experiments
  • Results of field research such as interviews, observations, or surveys
  • Statistics from government agencies
  • Scholarly books and articles that interpret data from original experiments and from other researchers' studies
  • Primary sources such as maps and government documents
  • Primary sources such as artefacts

Sciences: biology, chemistry, physics

  • Data from original experiments
  • Scholarly articles that report findings from experiments
  • Models, diagrams, or animations