REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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Question
[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: -The Turin Canon was a papyrus scroll listing Egyptian kings from the First to the Nineteenth Dynasty. Thus it is a secondary written sources for the history of the Old Kingdom, but much closer to the Age of the Pyramids than we are. It may have been a private list, a scribe’s notes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Secondary sources were created by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching. For a historical research project, secondary sources are generally scholarly books and articles. A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources.
Detailed explanation-3: -Primary sources can be described as those sources that are closest to the origin of the information. They contain raw information and thus, must be interpreted by researchers. Secondary sources are closely related to primary sources and often interpret them.