Somebody from the past, like a diary entry from Julius Caesar. But also, a primary source can be written recently, for example, a Journal Article, Newspaper Article, Birth Certificate, Death Certificate.
The thing to remember about the difference between a Primary Source and a Secondary Source is: Has it been cited or quoted or is this the original information? If I find an article written by Person A that quotes Person B who quotes Julius Caesar, that is NOT a primary source. The original words Person A used in his/her article--minus quoted material--is a Primary Source.
Primary sources are original documents such as deeds, certificates, tax rolls, correspondence, ledgers, etc. Primary source documents are normally preserved in archives. Other types of written resources are usually found in libraries.
A book I wrote about a riot I saw yesterday in Portland, Oregon.
Primary polluters are air pollutants that come directly from a source. A volcanic eruption is an example of a primary pollutant.
The Sun.
Someone who conducted the experiment.
A secondary source analyses and interprets a primary source. Some examples would be: a text book; the results for an experiment; or a website.
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A primary source is when someone founds a real ancient thing that someone wrote or draw a long time ago
A primary source is when someone founds a real ancient thing that someone wrote or draw a long time ago
A primary source on Cleopatra simply needs to come from the ancient world. Plutarch wrote about her in a few biographies. Even though he wrote these about 150 years after her death, they are still considered as primary sources.
I believe that a encyclopedia is a secondary source, because the person who wrote it most likely didn't witness every single event in it. __--FROM GENIUS--__
A theatre would be a secondary source because they are producing something that someone else wrote. The actual play would be the primary source unless it was copied from something else as well.
If we are using his original words, from documents that he personally wrote, those are primary sources. If we are using other people's interpretations (whether scholars or researchers or historians), those are secondary sources.
It important to know what a primary and secondary source is because it helps us destinguish a source that happended during the event and a source that the auther wrote from other sourceses that he/she read.
Primary is something that was written by the person who saw what happened.Ex:keela wrote about the world war,and she told her mom this was a primary source because she acutaully lived during the time.
A primary source would be from someone who was actually at the battle, while a secondary source would be from someone who had heard about the battle or wrote about it, but wasn't actually at the battle.
Yes, a diary entry is considered a primary source because it provides firsthand accounts of events, thoughts, and feelings recorded by an individual at the time they occurred.
It is a primary source.
A picture can indeed be a primary source.