REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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Question
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Read the following excerpt from Vincent van Gogh:Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.Every Sunday on his way to church, young Vincent would pass the headstone carved with the name he shared. Did he feel as if his dead brother were the rightful Vincent, the one who would remain perfect in his parents’ hearts, and that he was merely an unsatisfactory replacement? That might have been one of the reasons he spent so much of his life feeling like a lonely outsider, as if he didn’t fit anywhere in the world.Which kind of source does this passage represent?
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primary
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secondary
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -So the one which is not a source of secondary data is (D), questionnaires.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of primary sources: Theses, dissertations, scholarly journal articles (research based), some government reports, symposia and conference proceedings, original artwork, poems, photographs, speeches, letters, memos, personal narratives, diaries, interviews, autobiographies, and correspondence.
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