Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Autobiography Memoir
c) Letters
a written, typed, or printed communication
Example: Soldiers during wars wrote to their families about war events they experienced.
d) Correspondences
letters and emails and so on that are exchanged by parties who communicate with one another.
e) Journals
a daily record of news and events of a personal nature
g) Interviews
a conversation between two or more people used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.
Example: During the 2016 election President Rodrigo Duterte, had many interviews
that were televised.
h) Oral histories
the collection of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having
personal knowledge of past events.
i) Speeches
a formal address or discourse delivered to an audience.
Example: Sec. Roy A. Cimatu’s speech, “Love Boracay Sustainability Week”
j) Literature—novel/fictions, poems
written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
Example:
Noli Me Tángere by Dr. José Rizal.
Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas.
Mga Ibong Mandaragit by Amado V. Hernandez.
The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nick Joaquin.
Po-on A Novel by F. Sionil Jose.
Banaag at Sikat by Lope K. Santos.
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco.
Dekada '70 by Lualhati Bautista.
k) Records
a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account of an act or
occurrence kept in writing or some other permanent form.
l) Transcripts
a written or printed version of material originally presented in another medium.
Example: Image Citation: Mariano Peji and Filipino sailors at the U.S. Naval Academy
posed in basketball uniforms circa 1926.