Assalamualaikum.. Today i want to share about what i have learnt in this week..
What I’ve learnt in week 2 is about sources. Okay,
what do you know about sources? Source is actually something like the tools or
search strategies to find information. You know what, before this I did not
know well about the sources. For your information, there are three categories
of sources:
1. Primary
sources
2. Secondary sources
3. Tertiary sources
PRIMARY SOURCES
2. Secondary sources
3. Tertiary sources
PRIMARY SOURCES
Contemporary
Accounts - of an event written by the person who witnessed or experienced
it.
Original
Document – not about another document or account.
Published
works - as long as they are written soon after the fact and not
as historical accounts
What
is a primary source?
A primary source is an original object
or document, first-hand information.
Primary source is material written or
produced in the time period that you may be investigating.
Primary sources enable the researcher
to get as close as possible to what actually happened
during an historical
event or time period.
Example:
DIARY
|
LETTER
SPEECHES
MANUSCRIPT
SECONDARY SOURCES
| What is a secondary source? |
Is something written about a primary
source.
Are written "after the fact"
- that is, at a later date.
Usually the author of a secondary
source will have studied the primary sources of an historical
period or event and will then interpret the "evidence" found in these
sources.
As second- hand information.
Interpret primary sources - at
least one step removed from the event or phenomenon under review
Examination of studies that other
researchers have made of a subject .
Example :
ENCYCLOPEDIA
HISTORY TEXTBOOK
You know what?Newspaper and magazine articles can be a primary or secondary source.
If the article was written at the time something happened, then it is a primary source.
However, if a reporter in 2009 wrote about George Washington’s inauguration using information written by someone else (1789), that would be asecondary source.
TERTIERY SOURCES
>Collection of primary and secondary sources
>Includes most
types of references.
Example: