REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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Primary Source
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Secondary Source
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Primary Source is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in the event. Diaries, speeches, letters, official records, autobiographies. A Secondary Source gets its information from somewhere else or by a person not directly involved in the event.
Detailed explanation-2: -Letters, diaries, minutes, photographs, artifacts, interviews, and sound or video recordings are examples of primary sources created as a time or event is occurring.
Detailed explanation-3: -Text books and biographies are good examples of secondary sources, because they were not created in the time and place under study. The diary of Anne Frank is a primary source to anyone studying Anne Frank, World War II, the Holocaust, or Europe during the 1940s, for example.