A primary source is like a diary of somebody that has experienced something or the person them self (autobiography) A secondary source is when somebody has heard the story and retells it or writes about it. (biography) A primary source is the most reliable because information can be lost or changed by a secondary source so historians favor primary sources.
An autobiography is considered a primary source as it is a firsthand account of a person's life experiences written by that person themselves. It offers valuable insights and perspectives on the individual's life and can be used as primary evidence in historical or autobiographical research.
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It is a primary source.
No, an encyclopedia is a secondary source.
As long as the focus of the autobiography is on the writer or things the writer directly witnessed, it is a primary source. Most, but not all succeed in this. An example of one that does not is the book, A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Happened in Virginia published in 1608 by Captain John Smith of Jamestown. While there are elements of truth in the writing, it is largely a work of fiction or the palgerism of other writters of the time.
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