Primary sources can include: Texts of laws and other original documents. Newspaper reports, by reporters who witnessed an event or who quote people who did. Speeches, diaries, letters and interviews – what the people involved said or wrote.
Q. What primary sources do historians use?
Letters, diaries, speeches, and photographs are examples of primary sources. Artifacts such as tools are also primary sources. Other tools that historians use are secondary sources. They are written after a historical event by people who did not see the event.
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- Q. What primary sources do historians use?
- Q. Which item would be considered a primary source of historical information?
- Q. What are two examples of a secondary source?
- Q. What is the difference between primary and secondary sources for the tax system?
- Q. What is the difference between primary and secondary consumers?
- Q. What is one advantage of a primary source?
- Q. How do you know its a primary source?
Q. Which item would be considered a primary source of historical information?
When you write a historical research paper, you are creating a secondary source based on your own analysis of primary source material. Examples of primary sources include diaries, journals, speeches, interviews, letters, memos, photographs, videos, public opinion polls, and government records, among many other things.
Q. What are two examples of a secondary source?
Examples of secondary sources include:
- journal articles that comment on or analyse research.
- textbooks.
- dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
- books that interpret, analyse.
- political commentary.
- biographies.
- dissertations.
- newspaper editorial/opinion pieces.
Q. What is the difference between primary and secondary sources for the tax system?
Primary authority comes from statutory, administrative, and judicial sources. Secondary authority consists of unofficial sources of tax information such as tax services, journals, textbooks, and newsletters.
Q. What is the difference between primary and secondary consumers?
The organisms that eat the producers are the primary consumers. The primary consumers are herbivores (vegetarians). The organisms that eat the primary consumers are meat eaters (carnivores) and are called the secondary consumers. The secondary consumers tend to be larger and fewer in number.
Q. What is one advantage of a primary source?
Advantages: Primary sources directly address your topic and often provide information that is unavailable elsewhere. For example, the questions you compose for an interview or a survey will likely target your unique interest in the topic. Similarly, to test a particular hypothesis, you can design your own experiment.
Q. How do you know its a primary source?
Published materials can be viewed as primary resources if they come from the time period that is being discussed, and were written or produced by someone with firsthand experience of the event. Often primary sources reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer.
