Identify original research and evidence, through primary sources, to determine how valid and credible your own opinions will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A primary source is firsthand testimony, direct evidence, or an original creation about the topic you are studying. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally it is created at the time of the event, and it is a witness’s or participant’s insight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of primary sources can be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n A secondary source is an interpretation, analysis, or restatement of primary sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Often it attempts to describe or explain primary sources and give perspective to those sources. It may compare, interpret, or document information on a topic, and to do so it may include photos, quotations, or other excerpts of primary sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Secondary sources are often articles, reviews, biographies, essays, critiques, and books that interpret, analyze, or place in context a research work or works. Most sources in a typical research paper are secondary sources.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n A tertiary source is compiled from primary and secondary sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally it *does not*<\/strong> include significant original work on the part of the author. It is often an overview of, or aid to finding, primary or secondary sources. Normally, analysis and judgment are not significant parts of a tertiary source. Instead, a tertiary source provides an introduction, pointer, or gateway to a subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tertiary sources include almanacs, chronologies, summaries, timelines, dictionaries and encyclopedias, directories, guidebooks, indexes, manuals, and textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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