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Primary sources: are usually items written or created during the time period under study by individuals with a first-hand experience. The original artifacts or phenomena that scholars analyze in order to produce insight.
Examples:
political demonstrations, natural phenomena
Secondary sources: are the publications in which scholars present their analysis, insights, and claims. On occasion, things that were originally published as secondary sources can be analyzed by future scholars as primary artifacts about what scholarship was like at the time of the original publication. In this way, Some secondary scholarship can sometimes be considered a primary source, and how you categorize them depends on how you're using them in your work.
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