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What happens when a historian has more information than he or she can use in answering a historical question?
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∙ 11y ago
The historian often has much more information than he, or she, can use in answering a historical question. He, or she, must sort that information into what is important in the progression of the story. Too much information is as bad as too little. Consider discarding any information that is not vital to telling the story, however, you may choose to include a few information snippets to make the story interesting and draw your reader into events.
Asking and answering yourself questions can help in sorting information. Use only the most important and credible historical sources. Consider discarding information from secondary sources, rather than primary sources. If you have information from two sources, one a primary source and one a secondary source use the primary source information, you can always cite the secondary source as reference. The historian seeks to use sources to compile a logical narrative that leads to a credible reconstruction.
Historical writing is exactly the same as any other writing, it needs to be clear, concise, and say the necessary in a brief, but complete way.
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Answer this question… Primary sources are created by people who actually experienced the event
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