REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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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: -All documents of state, such as the US Constitution, and any federal, state, and local government-issued documents are immediate accounts of information categorized as primary sources. Is the declaration of independence a primary source? Yes, the declaration of independence is a primary source.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of secondary sources are scholarly or popular books and journal articles, histories, criticisms, reviews, commentaries, encyclopedias, and textbooks.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.