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12.3: Glossary and Footnotes

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    Glossary

    initialism. Using the first letters of words to create an abbreviation, for instance, LGBTQ+.

    primary sources. Firsthand records and documents or original artifacts that are analyzed, studied, and interpreted. They include poems, legal documents, recordings, and any other direct evidence of a historical person, event, or topic.

    truncation. A word-search method using the root of a word within a title or keyword search regardless of the word ending. An asterisk (*) in many databases signifies that the search should include multiple word endings.

    Footnotes


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