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They summarize conclusions about primary sources.

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they provide firsthand accounts of historical events.
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Kennedy Freitas

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The comment below is wrong and refers to a primary source, rather than a secondary one.
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Definetaly primary sources because primary sources are evidence from people who were actually there.

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Primary sources are as fallible as secondary sources. You need both types of sources.

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A secondary source summaries large amounts of evidence.

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A primary source is usually going to be more biased, while a secondary source covers more information and usually wont pick sides

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They provide firsthand accounts of historical events.

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because secondary source might contain an insight about a historical event that a primary sources do not reflect.

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this is correct

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When is a secondary source more helpful than a primary source?

When you are not an expert in the field being studied in the experiment


What is one advantage of using primary sources when doing research on an experiment?

Primary Sources are created by people who actually experienced the event.


Why would a historian wish to consult multiple sources of information on a topic?

The more sources there are to corroborate a conclusion, the more likely that conclusion is to be true. -Apex


Can you get words of primary stress secondary stress and tertiary stress?

The stressed syllable is the syllable that is emphasized when it is spoken. Some words have more than one stressed syllable, so the primary stress is the most emphasized syllable, the secondary stress is the second most emphasized, and the tertiary stress is the third most emphasized.


Are primary sources reliable?

All sources, whether primary or secondary, need to be assessed for reliability. Please also note that the term primary source is not absolute or fixed. For example, there is a significant difference between accounts written at the time and an autobiography written in some cases decades after the events that it describes. You need to ask questions like: * Who wrote it? Why, when, where? * Did the author have first hand knowledge of the events described? If not, how did he or she get the information? (For example, does the source merely repeat stories that cirulated widely at the time?) * What is the author's point of view? Is there evidence of bias? These are just some of the more obvious general questions that one needs to ask. Of course in many cases there may not be any simple answers.

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When is a secondary source more helpful than a primary source?

When you are not an expert in the field being studied in the experiment


Is cherry primary or secondary source?

Its a primary source as it comes off a tree - cant get more primary than that


Explain the difference beteween primary sources of information and secondary sources of information.Identify which would be more helpful to you are looking for information concerning the animal that a?

a primary source would be first hand from an educated certified doctor or something like that. a secondary source would be information from someone...like me!


Is primary the most used source out of secondary and primary?

Primary is the source you can depend the most upon because it is the first source therefor it is used more often.


Why can a secondary source be more helpful than a primary source sometimes?

Answer this question… To evaluate the perspective of a witness to the event


Is a interview a secondary source?

Interviews are primary sources 'cause the interviewers are getting the information from the source.


What device is used to increase or decrease the amount of voltage from a source to a load or from a primary source to a secondary source?

If the primary source is AC, then that's the job of a transformer. If the primary source is DC, then doing that requires considerably more complex electronics.


Unlike a primary source a secondary source can be what-?

written or caused by someone who did not experience an event. from APEX


Is Richard III by William Shakespeare a secondary or primary source?

It's more like a tertiary source. Shakespeare got his information from the secondary source Holinshed's History, which is based primarily on the earlier secondary source written by Polydore Vergil. The original primary source is probably the account attributed to Sir Thomas More, who, if he was the author, must have had the information from elsewhere, as he was an infant when the events of Richard's reign took place.


What are primary and secondary sources and how do historians use them when researching different events in history?

A primary source is a person (or a record produced by a person) who was actually there, as a witness or a participant of the event in question. A secondary source is someone who obtained information from a primary source and who then wrote or spoke about it. Primary sources are the more authoritative, however they are not always available, and sometimes you have to settle for lesser sources.


What best describes the difference between primary and secondary source?

Primary sources are accounts or descriptions based on a first hand, one sided experience. A secondary source is created by some-one (normally a historian) who has gathered up primary sources and sometimes some other secondary sources, then written what they perceive as a more reliable, detached account.


What are the functions of primary and secondary groups?

A primary group has fact to face interactions and is more intimate than secondary groups. Secondary groups are more formal.