Professional Documents
Culture Documents
credibility, authenticity, and provenance of certain facts if it uses primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
of information on a certain topic as a source. Both Internal and external criticism are important in
evaluating primary source but Internal criticism strongly evaluate primary source for their credibility,
authenticity, and provenance because it bases on the inner evidence of a certain object or event. Unlike
External criticism, it only bases on the physical appearance of the source or what we can only see on the
source. But Internal criticism seeks to evaluate the source through its contents or inner information’s.