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Secondary source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In library and information science, historiography and other areas of scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere....
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What is a secondary source? A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.
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ARE YOU A GOOD RESEARCHER??? Read the following examples of sources. Place a check by the ones that are SECONDARY SOURCES. Be careful! Some of the these are diffucult! ____1. Diary kept by John Smith, a soldier in the Confederate Army, published in a collection...
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A guide to using primary sources for research from UC Berkeley Library ... What are secondary sources? ... To find secondary sources in book form, search the library catalogs. To find articles that are secondary sources, search an article database such as Historical Abstracts or America: History and Life.
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Overview of Archaic & Classical Greek History, by Thomas Martin. ... Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ... Sources for Thucydides Research: modern scholarship on the ancient historian.
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What IS the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary sources? ... Secondary sources are less easily defined than primary sources. Generally, they are accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. They are interpretations and evaluations of primary sources. Secondary sources are not evidence,
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3. Secondary sources; The function of these is to interpret primary sources, and so can be described as at least one step removed from the event or phenomenon under review. Secondary source materials, then, interpret, assign value to, conjecture upon, and draw conclusions about the events reported in primary sources.
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Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; When Is a Primary Source Not a Primary Source?; And Now the Most Important Question: Who Cares?; Checklist; Questioning Primary Sources ... Primary and secondary sources, when used together, help us to understand people, ideas and events from the past.
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Secondary sources interpret, analyze or summarize. Commentary upon, or analysis of, events, ideas, or primary sources. Because they are often written significantly after events by parties not directly involved but who have special expertise, they may provide historical context or critical perspectives.
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