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- Firsthand records of events, theories, opinions, or actions
- Unpublished or published documents, recordings, artifacts
- Must be present at the time of the events, people, or info at issue |
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| Challenges of primary sources |
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- After a certain amount of time, primary sources are not primary anymore (After a couple of decades or years)
- Not always accurate
- Difficult to analyze |
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| Information based on real events and/or situations |
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| Beliefs based on personal judgements |
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| Opinion or beliefs that affect a person's ability to make fair judgments |
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| Opinions about an entire group of people or things |
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| Tells a story or relates a chain of events |
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| Introduces or explains a subject, gives groundwork info that is needed to understand later ideas |
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Precise info, usually about a specific topic, and usually in formal or semi-formal fashion
- Sometimes uses lists, text boxes, bullets, etc. |
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| Tries to get the reader to agree with the author |
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| Difference between expository and technical |
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Expository = facts to inform or explain something generally
Technical = to teach reader to use a specific object or perform a specific task |
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| Subjects that written works frequently touch upon |
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General subject
hint. What would this work be filed under in the library? |
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| Logical conclusion that is not actually written in the text |
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| Time and place in which the piece was written will affect the writing |
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| Problem-solution text structure |
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Problem in one paragraph
Solution in another |
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