Question

5. What do you understand by primary and secondary source materials?​

Answer 1

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Primary sources provide a first-hand account of an event or time period and are considered to be authoritative. They represent original thinking, reports on discoveries or events, or they can share new information. Secondary sources involve analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of primary sources.♡

Answer 2

Explanation:

Primary and secondary sources

Primary sources provide a first-hand account of an event or time period and are considered to be authoritative. They represent original thinking, reports on discoveries or events, or they can share new information. Often these sources are created at the time the events occurred but they can also include sources that are created later. They are usually the first formal appearance of original research.

Secondary sources involve analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of primary sources. They often attempt to describe or explain primary sources.

Scholarly journals, although generally considered to be secondary sources, often contain articles on very specific subjects and may be the primary source of information on new developments.

Primary and secondary categories are often not fixed and depend on the study or research you are undertaking. For example, newspaper editorial/opinion pieces can be both primary and secondary. If exploring how an event affected people at a certain time, this type of source would be considered a primary source. If exploring the event, then the opinion piece would be responding to the event and therefore is considered to be a secondary source.

Primary sources

Examples of primary resources include:

diaries, correspondence, ships' logs

original documents e.g. birth certificates, trial transcripts

biographies, autobiographies, manuscripts

interviews, speeches, oral histories

case law, legislation, regulations, constitutions

government documents, statistical data, research reports

a journal article reporting NEW research or findings

creative art works, literature

newspaper advertisements and reportage and editorial/opinion pieces

Primary sources can be found using:

Library collection

Primary sources for history subject guide

Secondary sources

Secondary sources offer an analysis, interpretation or a restatement of primary sources and are considered to be persuasive. They often involve generalisation, synthesis, interpretation, commentary or evaluation in an attempt to convince the reader of the creator's argument. They often attempt to describe or explain primary sources.

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

criticism of literature, art works or music