When you are not an expert in the field being studied in the experiment
Primary Sources are created by people who actually experienced the event.
The more sources there are to corroborate a conclusion, the more likely that conclusion is to be true. -Apex
The stressed syllable is the syllable that is emphasized when it is spoken. Some words have more than one stressed syllable, so the primary stress is the most emphasized syllable, the secondary stress is the second most emphasized, and the tertiary stress is the third most emphasized.
All sources, whether primary or secondary, need to be assessed for reliability. Please also note that the term primary source is not absolute or fixed. For example, there is a significant difference between accounts written at the time and an autobiography written in some cases decades after the events that it describes. You need to ask questions like: * Who wrote it? Why, when, where? * Did the author have first hand knowledge of the events described? If not, how did he or she get the information? (For example, does the source merely repeat stories that cirulated widely at the time?) * What is the author's point of view? Is there evidence of bias? These are just some of the more obvious general questions that one needs to ask. Of course in many cases there may not be any simple answers.
A secondary source is more helpful when you are looking for analysis, interpretation, or synthesis of information already presented in primary sources. It can provide additional context, perspective, or critical assessment of the primary sources.
When you are not an expert in the field being studied in the experiment
Its a primary source as it comes off a tree - cant get more primary than that
a primary source would be first hand from an educated certified doctor or something like that. a secondary source would be information from someone...like me!
Primary is the source you can depend the most upon because it is the first source therefor it is used more often.
Answer this question… To evaluate the perspective of a witness to the event
Interviews are primary sources 'cause the interviewers are getting the information from the source.
A secondary source summarizes complex subjects by synthesizing multiple sources.
written or caused by someone who did not experience an event. from APEX
If the primary source is AC, then that's the job of a transformer. If the primary source is DC, then doing that requires considerably more complex electronics.
It's more like a tertiary source. Shakespeare got his information from the secondary source Holinshed's History, which is based primarily on the earlier secondary source written by Polydore Vergil. The original primary source is probably the account attributed to Sir Thomas More, who, if he was the author, must have had the information from elsewhere, as he was an infant when the events of Richard's reign took place.
A primary source is a person (or a record produced by a person) who was actually there, as a witness or a participant of the event in question. A secondary source is someone who obtained information from a primary source and who then wrote or spoke about it. Primary sources are the more authoritative, however they are not always available, and sometimes you have to settle for lesser sources.