RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -These digitized primary sources include primary documents and a news clip of the Sputnik launch. This news clip about the Sputnik Launch in 1957 is available on the Internet Archive. Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

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