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    Primary sources enable researchers to directly access information from the time period being studied as they are created during or very near the time under investigation. Examples include meeting minutes, diaries, letters, and photographs. Secondary sources are one step removed as they analyze and interpret primary sources. Textbooks, essays, and biographies are common secondary sources. While primary sources provide unfiltered insights, they lack context and interpretation. Secondary sources help broaden understanding but rely on the validity of the primary sources they examine.

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    Primary sources enable researchers to directly access information from the time period being studied as they are created during or very near the time under investigation. Examples include meeting minutes, diaries, letters, and photographs. Secondary sources are one step removed as they analyze and interpret primary sources. Textbooks, essays, and biographies are common secondary sources. While primary sources provide unfiltered insights, they lack context and interpretation. Secondary sources help broaden understanding but rely on the validity of the primary sources they examine.

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    Primary sources enable researchers to directly access information from the time period being studied as they are created during or very near the time under investigation. Examples include meeting minutes, diaries, letters, and photographs. Secondary sources are one step removed as they analyze and interpret primary sources. Textbooks, essays, and biographies are common secondary sources. While primary sources provide unfiltered insights, they lack context and interpretation. Secondary sources help broaden understanding but rely on the validity of the primary sources they examine.

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    PRIMARY AND

    SECONDARY SOURCES
    HISTORICAL SOURCES
    HISTORICAL SOURCES

    • Sources – an object from the past or testimony


    concerning the past o which historian depend in order to
    create their own depiction of that past.
    PRIMARY SOURCES
    • Primary Sources - enable the researcher to get as close
    as possible to what actually happened during an
    historical event or time period.
    • Primary Sources - are those sources produced at the
    same time as the event, period, or subject being studied.
    • Primary Sources – are original records of certain event
    by people who have actually experienced or witnessed
    it.
    EXAMPLE OF PRIMARY SOURCES
    • If a historian wishes to study the Commonwealth
    Constitution Convention of 1935, his primary sources
    can include the minutes of the convention, newspaper
    clipping Philippine Commission reports of the U.S
    Commissioners, record of the convention, the of the
    event. draft of the constitution, and even the
    photographs.
    DIARIES AND
    JOURNALS
    - A book in which one keeps
    a daily record of events and
    experiences.
    - Example: Anne Frank was
    a teenager during WW2.
    She kept a diary or journal
    the years before she died in
    a concentration camp. Her
    diary was later published as
    “Diary of Anne frank”
    LETTER
    - A written, type, or printed
    communication, especially one sent
    in an envelop by mail or messenger.
    - Example: A letter from Sigmund
    Freud. It is a digital scan of the
    original letter, but it still counts as a
    primary source.
    Official records
    -Records having the legally
    recognize and judicially
    enforceable quality of
    establishing some fact, policy,
    or institutional position or
    decision.
    Sound recording
    • Include everything from oral histories,
    to music, to speeches, to radio
    broadcast, and testimony and
    encompass all varieties of recorded
    sound.
    interviews
    • (first-person account of lives or events).
    • Not only are you listening to someone's
    personal recollections, opinions, or
    interpretations of events they were
    directly involve with, you are hearing it
    in their own voice.
    SECONDARY SOURCE
    • Secondary Source – on the other hand, are records based on primary sources.
    • They explain a certain event of the past through evaluation and interpretation of records
    created during a historical period.
    • Secondary Source – are those sources, which were produced by an author who used primary
    sources to produced the material.
    EXAMPLE OF SECONDARY
    SOURCES
    • These may include researches, textbooks, journals, commentaries, biographies, and criticism
    or reviews of literary and creative works.
    History and Culture,
    Language and
    Literature:
    Selected Essays of
    Teodoro A. Agoncillo
    ADVANTAGE OF USING PRIMARY
    SOURCE
    • Provide a window into the past – unfiltered access to the
    record of artistic, social, scientific and political thought
    and achievement during the specific period under study,
    produced by people who lived during that period.
    • These unique, often profoundly personal, documents and
    objects can give a very real sense of what it was like to
    be alive during a long-past era.
    • Direct contact with the original records and artifacts
    invites students to explore the content with active and
    deeper analysis, and to respond thoughtfully.
    • Critical thinking is developed as students probe the
    context, purpose, meaning, bias, and perspective in their
    analysis of the past.
    DISADVANTAGE OF PRIMARY
    SOURCE
    • Often incomplete and have little context. Students must
    use prior knowledge and work with multiple primary
    sources to find pattern.
    • In analyzing primary sources, students move from
    concrete observation and facts to questioning and
    making inferences about materials.
    ADVANTAGES OF SECONDARY
    SOURCES
    • Can provide analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation
    of the original information.
    • Secondary sources are best for uncovering background or
    historical information about the topic and broadening your
    understanding of the topic.
    • Allows the reader to get expert views of events and often
    bring together multiple primary source relevant to the
    subject matter.
    DISADVANTAGE OF SECONDARY
    SOURCE
    • Their validity and reliability are open to question, and
    often they do not provide exact information.
    • They do not represent 1st hand knowledge of a subject
    matter.

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