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Contrary to popular belief, mastering the use of icons is extremely easy, especially when you have free tools like Flaticon. This is a sister project of Freepik that offers over 7 million icons (and stickers!) that you can use to give life to your presentations.

You can also illustrate business presentations. See how this colorful icon brightens up the slide in the Customer Service Consulting Toolkit with Animated Icons presentation? A good icon pack can turn a simple slide into a top-quality piece of information if you know how to use it!

Get free Flat icons in iOS, Material, Windows and other design styles for web, mobile, and graphic design projects. These free images are pixel perfect to fit your design and available in both PNG and vector. Download icons in all formats or edit them for your designs.

Rather than only think about whether a source is primary, secondary, or tertiary; instead think about how you are going to use that source. If you have at least one source in each category, your writing will be stronger and your arguments will be better supported.

BEAM title image: 10. Column and Beam Details - Hantz House, 855 Fairview Drive, Fayetteville, Washington County, AR Drawings from Survey HABS AR-54 created by the Historic American Buildings Survey is in the Public Domain.
Background icon: Investigation created by Nhor Phai is used under Flaticon.com's license.
Exhibit icon: Encyclopedia created by Talha Dogar is used under Flaticon.com's license.
Argument icon: Application created by Freepik is used under Flaticon.com's license.
Method icon: Pie chart created by Freepik is used under Flaticon.com's license.

When evaluating the quality of the information you are using, it is useful to identify if you are using a Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary source. By doing so, you will be able recognize if the author is reporting on his/her own first hand experiences or relying on the views of others.

One easy way to think about the differences between these types of sources is to think of them as concentric rings on a target. Primary sources are the bullseye (a first-person account of an event or experience), secondary sources are the first ring (one step removed, commenting on and interpreting the primary source), tertiary are the outer ring (compiling and pointing the researcher to the secondary sources).

Sources that have been published very recently will reflect the current theories and understanding of the past. If you use a secondary source that was published decades ago, it is important to know what subsequent scholars have written on the topic and what criticism they have made about the earlier work or its approach to the topic.

Using icons on your site allows you to effectively communicate with your visitors by increasing readability, highlighting important content, re-enforcing functionality or features, and enhancing the design. We have compiled a great list resources where you can download free and premium icon packs to use in your existing and future projects.

Many of the resources listed offer SVG format icon packs. These vector files will provide you with endless flexibility and their small file size will help in reducing your website load times. SVG icons will look sharp on retina and high density displays and eliminate the need to duplicate the same icon files to support different density displays. SVG files can also be modified with CSS to change properties like colour and size, and if you want to take things to the next level, SVGs can also be animated.

This is one of the few icon packs which is optimized for Sketch, making it easy to manipulate stroke widths and colours. Sketch features included in Sketch such as symbols and shared styles makes reusing elements, like icons, a quick and easy process.

Create an icon sprite or just copy the icon SVGs you need for your project and Glyph will generate a semantic and versatile SVG icon set which you can use in an IMG tag and style with CSS. The icons are recommended to be used on a 16x16 grid, but can be set to any width or height.

With SmartIcons Mac App, you can drag and drop icons into your designs and they will work with virtually any design program, including Sketch. Smarticons also syncs with Dropbox to make it easy to search, organize, and sync your icon packs.

The popular web framework Bootstrap uses Font Awesome to easily and quickly add icons to your web projects. You can browse Font Awesome to discover individual icons or packs that can be easily integrated into your design. Font Awesome can also be delivered through a CDN, which boosts performance, saves bandwidth, and reduces your hosting costs for your site.