Primary and secondary resources have their own entities to define themselves, below I will list the aspects of a primary resource and secondary resource:
Primary
- Experienced by a person, this can be an event or someone who witnessed the event
- Original documentation, such things as diaries, letters, journals, that type of thing
- Sometimes on occasion, published works can be considered primary sources, this is if they are recorded or written soon after the event occured. This is so that the record of the event has more likelyness of being legitamate and accurate, as oppose to an historical account that is going to have to be leneant and guess some information, as they did not experience it.
- An interpretation of a primary source, an example of this could be a photo that you have found on the internet
- Documentation on an event you did not witness yourself
- They are usually published works, such things as articles, books, radio or even television documentaries.
- They are not always as accurate as intended, information can be inaccurate or not true at all
With a primary source, you know that what information you are seeing or reading has a much greater chance of being real, it is a first account of an event of image, therefore it has the most authenticity. They can also be used for greater purposes, for such things as part of a news report on television, although we know that sometimes they are prone to bending the truth for a story.
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| Secondary Image of the Titanic, a drawing depiction done by Clive Palmer |
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