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Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Primary vs. Secondary Sources. What is a Primary Source?. Any material produced by eyewitnesses or participants in an event, historical moment, or original research. What is a Secondary Source?.

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Primary vs. Secondary Sources

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  1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

  2. What is a Primary Source? • Any material produced by eyewitnesses or participants in an event, historical moment, or original research.

  3. What is a Secondary Source? • 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.

  4. Compare: Primary vs. Secondary Primary Source Secondary Source • Score 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 42about Jackie Robinson

  5. Questions to Ask When Determining if Something is a Primary 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?

  6. Primary and Secondary Source Examples

  7. Characteristics of a scholarly journal Keywords: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion

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