Professional Documents
Culture Documents
WEEK 1
Information
From Various
Sources
Most Essential Competency:
Tertiary
Primary Source
* Provides direct or firsthand information
about an event, person, object, or work of art.
*They are original materials which have not
been interpreted, condensed, or evaluated by
a second party.
*Materials that were created at the time the event
occurred or by those who experienced the event.
Examples:
Audio Recording Interview
Transcript
Diary
Autobiographies
and memoir
Maps News Paper
Primary Source
Artifacts
Secondary Source
*Offers an analysis or restatement or primary
sources
*materials which summarize, interpret, reorganize,
or otherwise provide an added value to a primary
source.
*Created after event; created by someone not
from the time period.
Question:
Why is Autobiography considered as
primary source and Biography is
secondary source?
Primary Secondary
Autobiography Biography
The story or a real The story or a real
person’s life that is person’s life written by
written by that person another person
Tertiary Source
*lists, compiles, or indexes, primary and
secondary information sources.