REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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Question
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An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.
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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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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of “electronic speech” while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada. This led him to invent the microphone and later the “electrical speech machine”–his name for the first telephone.
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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