RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Secondary Sources These sources offer an analysis or restatement of primary sources. They often try to describe or explain primary sources. They tend to be works which summarize, interpret, reorganize, or otherwise provide an added value to a primary source.

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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