Original source of information created at the time under study
For Wikipedia's policy on the use of primary sources, see Wikipedia:No original research § Primary.
This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions.
In journalism, a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document written by such a person.[1]
Primary sources are distinguished from secondary sources, which cite, comment on, or build upon primary sources. Generally, accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight are secondary.[2] A secondary source may also be a primary source depending on how it is used.[3] For example, a memoir would be considered a primary source in research concerning its author or about their friends characterized within it, but the same memoir would be a secondary source if it were used to examine the culture in which its author lived. "Primary" and "secondary" should be understood as relative terms, with sources categorized according to specific historical contexts and what is being studied.[4]: 118–246 [5]
^Peace, Kristin. "Journalism: Primary Sources". Pepperdine University. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
^"Primary, secondary and tertiary sources". University Libraries, University of Maryland.
^"Primary and secondary sources Archived 1 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine". Ithaca College Library.
^Cite error: The named reference Handlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Kragh, Helge (1989). An Introduction to the Historiography of Science. Cambridge University Press. p. 121. ISBN 0-521-38921-6. [T]he distinction is not a sharp one. Since a source is only a source in a specific historical context, the same source object can be both a primary or secondary source according to what it is used for.
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own sons, drowned.[non-primarysource needed] The final resting place of the ship was referred to as "Al-Jūdiyy"[non-primarysource needed] or a "Munzalanm-Mubārakan"...
scholar Johannes Weiss, stands for "Quelle" (German for "source"). The third primarysource is M. Although most scholars accept the four-document hypothesis...
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attacks or strokes in patients with a pheochromocytoma.[non-primarysource needed][non-primarysource needed] In a study of 130 patients with pheochromocytoma...
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represent the lowest point the food chains, making photosynthesis the primarysource of energy and food for nearly all life on earth. Plants also absorb...
Tom Kerridge.[non-primarysource needed] Food can be pre-ordered through the British Airways mobile application.[non-primarysource needed] Alternatively...
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