Primary and Secondary Sources

Published on Oct 18, 2017

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Primary and Secondary Sources

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primary or secondary?

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"raw" sources

How "close" is a resource to an event, discovery, experiment, or act of creation?

Objectives

  • understand the nature and importance of primary and secondary sources in relation to one another.
  • Identify primary and secondary sources.
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Primary Sources

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Used in a number of disciplines to describe source material that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea being studied.

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straight from the horse's mouth

  • eyewitness accounts
  • from the subject's time period
  • written by a key expert who developed the subject area
  • direct report of an experiment
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Secondary Sources

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Secondary sources cite, analyze, interpret, comment on, or build upon primary sources.

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books

Disciplinary Context

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original research

reviews

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primary or secondary?

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1. Distance measured by time
2. My question as a researcher

Primary Review

  • Close in proximity to a specific time, event, or moment of creation
  • minimally processed or altered
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Secondary Review

  • made up of, based upon, in some way derived from a primary source
  • more removed in time (as a measure of distance)
  • Distance can transform a secondary source into a primary source

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