Is the material a primary, secondary or tertiary source?
Primary sources usually contain data or information appearing for the first time, before it is analyzed or discussed elsewhere. Examples include: • Census records • Government Documents • survey results • reports containing research findings • statistics • eye witness accounts/interviews Examples: articles in scholarly journals, government reports, or transcripts of interviews. Primary resources are often preferred by researchers over secondary resources for the following reasons: • a primary source may be less open to interpretation than a secondary source which incorporates someone s opinions and biases regarding the information. • a primary source provides a broader picture than a secondary source in which only portions of the original data may have been selected for discussion. Secondary sources are accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. They are interpretations and evaluations of primary sources. Secondary sources are not evidence, but rather commentary on
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