worthy of acceptance or belief as

conforming to or based on fact;

genuine

AUTHENTIC
 AUTHENTIC TEXTS
This include published works that are
typically encountered by students in
daily life such as books and magazines.
PRINT SOURCES
1. Newspaper
• provides readers with the latest
domestic and foreign updates on
social, political, and economic events,
and recent discoveries
• News section
• Editorial section
• Entertainment section
• Sports section
• Classified Ads
2. Magazines
• features some articles, stories,
cartoons, photographs, and other
literary pieces that entertain and
inform its readers
3. Dictionary
• a book or electronic resource that
lists the words and gives their
meaning, pronunciation, and usage
4. Thesaurus
• lists works grouped together according
to similarities of meaning
5. Index
• an alphabetical list of topics or terms
and the pages where they can be found
in the book
6. Glossary
• a list that gives definitions of the
difficult or unusual words in a book
7. Almanac
• contains recent statistics and summaries
of information on a wide variety of topics
like most visited tourist spots or most
populated cities
8. Encyclopedia
• contain articles or general information on
different topics
• covers a wide range of subjects from
almost all branches of knowledge
SOURCES of INFORMATION
–primary
–secondary
 PRIMARY SOURCES
• provides direct or firsthand evidence
about an event, object or topic
Examples:
✓ autobiography
✓ interview
✓ photographs
✓ artifacts of all kinds
 SECONDARY SOURCES
• describe, discuss, summarize
and process primary sources
Examples:
✓bibliography
✓textbooks
✓reference books
✓history books
Reading the right material enriches
the mind and guides the hand.