Primary Secondary Source Examples
Primary & Secondary Source Examples
Below are some more examples to help you discern the difference between a primary and a secondary source in various disciplines.
Discipline |
Primary Source |
Secondary Source |
Art
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History
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Letters of a Civil War soldier, written 1862
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accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor, published in the New York Times in 1941
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Literature
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Social Sciences
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report of an original experiment
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statistics on juvenile delinquency from the Bureau of Justice
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Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA)
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