Secondary source

Primary and secondary sources are both very important pieces of information that have been used to help support history throughout the years. Without our primary and secondary sources we would not have information to base off of. Primary sources are actual artifacts or documents created during a specific time. Some great examples of primary sources are things like journals, diaries, newspapers, speeches and even things like art and music. All these things were created first hand by someone at a specific time. The diary of Ann Frank is also a great example of a primary source. Her actual diary that was retrieved shares with us actual events and allows us to see what life was like through her eyes with her diary. Other primary sources are things like surveys and results. If you take a look at this year’s Census statistics that is leaving primary source information about our country and our people. We create primary sources every day when we take pictures with our phones because we are documenting something in a photo of a specific date and time. Without primary sources we would not be able to discover things from the past.…

When looking at secondary sources one must take a different view than when analyzing a primary source. There are several credentials that must be met for a truly reliable secondary source. First, who is the author, are there any authors, or was a university or nonprofit responsible for the source? Second, who published the source, is it a website, a journal or a book? Third, who is this source geared toward and what does it want its audience to know or understand? Fourth, what makes this source…

primary sources as well as secondary sources. Both primary and secondary resources are vital to a good literature review. There are different types of primary and secondary sources that a nurse might use when preparing for a research project. Primary and Secondary Resources A primary source is “original information presented by the person or people responsible for creating it” (Schmidt &Brown, 2012). Primary sources always offer full references to others’ work cited information contained in the…

A secondary source, this book is written by Anthony Beevor, A British military Historian, It is originally published in 2006. Its purpose was to revise previous interpretations and recount the events that happened in the Spanish civil war. The focus of the book is on 2 Chapters, one being chapter 17: The battle of Madrid and Chapter and Chapter 33: The fall of Catalonia, both chapters depicts to different key battles that uses the Guerra Celere(rapid war)that results to the loss of territory for…

A well known debate today is whether young adults should seek a post-secondary education or if they should jump right into the workforce after graduating high school. When analyzing articles, you have to pay attention to the dates they were written and who wrote them. Some sources are biased and could persuade your thoughts and decisions in a negative way. Many people disagree with attending a type of post-secondary schooling, but college can give students the ability to financially succeed…

My research topic for my secondary source paper is plastic pollution. My research question is what impact has plastic pollution had on our oceans in the past 25 years. My family has always been big into traveling and when we do you will typically find us in the water snorkeling. The place that stands out most in my memory is Hawaii; the water was crystal clear, the coral bright, and the turtles would swim right next to you. This is where I fell in love with the sea, but this is also where I…

In considering the two types of sources—primary and secondary—I think that each has their strengths. However, I think that primary sources are ultimately the best way to learn about the past, because they are more memorable, more interesting, and easier to empathize with. The first advantage to primary sources is that they are more memorable. The point of history, of course, is to learn about the past, and so this is an important concern. If you don’t remember, you don’t learn. Anyhow,…

Secondary Source Analysis Bad Medicine Better Medicine attempts to summarize, and examine the history of medicine, and how all medicine before 1865 can be considered bad. It wasn’t until the last century and a half did good medicine start to find its place in medical history. In Wootton’s opinion, it is said that the history of medicine has been often written by doctors, for doctors. Modern discoveries which should actually be considered good have only come about through evidence-based methods,…

Chapter 30 in The Norton Introduction to Literature talks about the research essay. A research essay is in essay that requires research on a particular topic. You still have to make a plan, draft the essay, and revise it. Research essays use secondary sources. The types and functions of secondary sources is also talked about in this book. Secondary sources are literary criticism, biography, and history. The type of essay that you use will determine which type of source that you will need. Unless…

incredibly confused. I did not know what the purpose of this article was. The article as a whole reads as a timeline of the Vietnam war. However, after reading the article multiple times, I now understand that the author was making a more nuanced argument compared to other articles I’ve read. The author name drops a lot of different sources, but in the end, the main objective of the source is to establish The Quiet American as a historical source. To accomplish that, the author has to establish…