[WikiEN-l] Primary sources

[Ray Saintonge]

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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