Jonathan wrote:
If someone uses a primary source, should the context be quoted directly? If it is not, would that constitute original research? Another words, if someone takes the primary source and interprets it to his or her own need, it does seem like a re-creation of a primary source. It's like original research in an attempt to make the primary source a secondary source.
When you take a primary source and paraphrase it or interpret it it is no longer that primary source. It is original research, and you interpretation may mean something entirely different from what the source intended.
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