Content and Contextual Analysis
Content and Contextual Analysis
Content and Contextual Analysis
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CONTEXTUA
L ANALYSIS
OF SELECTED PRIMARY SOURCES
1.Analyze the context, content, and
perspective of different kinds of
primary sources
CONTEXTU To ensure that the author of the source is reliable, credible, and
AL must be logical. It considers the following:
ANALYSIS •i. historical context of the source – it deals with the context or
the time and place that the information was written at that
specific period.
•ii. the background of the author – the author of the primary
source should be credible. The author’s intent and authority of
the subject must also be determined.
•iii. the relevance of the source in the present – the information
from the source must have relevance in the present and must be
logical to provide truth and objectivity.
HISTORIC •The primary goal of historical criticism is to
discover the text's primitive or original
meaning in its original historical context and
AL its literal sense or sensus literalis historicus.
The secondary goal seeks to establish a