On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM,
<wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
The way it was discussed in-project a teritiary
source summarizes
several secondary sources into one cohesive article.
Is a work that summarises/draws on multiple news articles secondary or
tertiary? I wonder, because I've considered writing articles based on
very old newspaper articles (eg, late 1800s). But I realise that it's
actually pretty hard to do, to not take events out of context, etc.
I'd be much better off using a book written by a historian...who has
read the articles. Is that book secondary? Tertiary? Somewhere in
between?
In this context, I think it's safe to say that the contemporary news
articles are primary sources; the book by the historian is a secondary
source; we're synthesising that and some other materials to be a
tertiary source.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk