primary vs. secondary sources
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Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Any material produced by eyewitnesses or participants in an event, historical moment, or original research.
What is a Primary Source?
Primary Source ExamplesPhotographs Artifacts, ClothingDiaries VideosAutobiographies MapsInterviews SpeechesLetters Government DocumentsAdvertisements Original researchA journal article reporting NEW findingsCreative works – poetry, drama, music, art
Secondary sources summarize, explain, comment on, or draw conclusions from primary sources. They are accounts of the past created by people writing about events after the event.
What is a Secondary Source?
Secondary Source ExamplesTextbooks CriticismsEncyclopedias Commentaries/
DocumentariesMagazine articles ReportsA book about… A journal which interprets
previous findings
Primary SourceScore Card from
1919 World Series
Photograph of Charlie Chaplin on a movie set
Interview excerpt with Jackie Robinson
The book Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinov
Biography of Charlie Chaplin
Movie titled 42 about Jackie Robinson
Compare: Primary vs. Secondary
Secondary Source
Did the information come from personal experience?
Did the author conduct original research on the project?
Is the information uninterpreted data or statistics?
Is the source an original document or a creative interpretation?
Questions to Ask When Determining if Something is a Primary Source:
Primary SourcesPhotographsDiaries/JournalsAutobiographiesInterviewsLettersAdvertisementsArtifacts/ClothingSpeechesGovernment DocumentsOriginal researchA journal article reporting NEW findingsCreative works – poetry, drama, music art
Secondary SourcesTextbooksEncyclopediasMagazine ArticlesCriticismsCommentaries/DocumentariesReportsA journal article that interprets previous findingsA book about…
Primary and Secondary Source Examples
Characteristics of a scholarly journal Keywords: Abstract,
Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion
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