Primary source
- A
primary source is an original object or document, first-hand information.
- Primary
source is material written or produced in the time period that you may be
investigating.
- Primary
sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually
happened during an historical event or time period.
Secondary source
- A secondary source is something
written about a primary source.
- Secondary sources are
written "after the fact" - that is, at a later date.
- Usually the author of
a secondary source will have studied the primary sources of an historical
period or event and will then interpret the "evidence" found in these
sources.
- You can think of
secondary sources as second-hand information.
Tertiary source
- Distillation and
collection of primary and secondary sources.
- Includes most types of
references.
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