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TOPIC: RESOURCES
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Primary, secondary and tertiary sources of information.
The following are the differences between primary, secondary and tertiary sources of information.
Primary Secondary Tertiary
Definition The primary sources of Secondary sources of Information derived from primary
information are original material. information are based on the and secondary source after
The other research studies will be primary or original collection and distillation.
based on these primary sources. information. They appear in a
modified or selected or
rearranged for a specific
purpose or audience.
Collector (the The data is collected by the The data is prepared by Usually not credited to any specific
one who investigator himself for the first someone who did not have fist author
collects this time hand experience or did not
information) participate in the
events/situations that are
being researched.
Purpose It reports a discovery or share new It analyzes, comments, Intended only to provide an
information. describes, discusses, evaluates overview of what the topic includes,
and interprets the evidence its basic terminology. Often,
given by primary sources. references to further reading are
included.
Presentation Presents the information in its Presents the information in Presents the information in
original form. The information is modified form. condensed, digested and
not condensed, evaluated or reformatted form. It is put into a
interpreted by others. convenient, easy-to-read form.
Nature They are evidence or accounts of Summaries of evidence or They are in easy to read
the events, practices being accounts of the events, reformatted, condensed and
practices being researched and
