Module 3: Sources

Question 1

Types of Sources:

Answer 1

Primary
Secondary
Original
Document

Question 2

Is the testimony of an eyewitness, or of a witness by any other of the senses, or of a mechanical device like dictaphone that is, of one who or that which was present at the events of which he or it tells (hereafter called simply eyewitness)

Answer 2

Primary Source

Question 3

Is the testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness – that is, one who was not present at the events of which he tells.

Answer 3

Secondary Source

Question 4

Why is tan Original Source important? (FCEAE)

Answer 4

1. because it contains FRESH AND CREATIVE IDEAS.
2. the COLLECTION of probable sources of information on the subject.
3. because it is in its EARLIEST, UNPOLISHED STAGE.
4. because its text is the APPROVED TEXT, UNMODIFIED AND UNTAMPERED with.
5. because it is the EARLIEST AVAILABLE SOURCE of the information it provides.

Question 5

A written source of historical information as contrasted with oral testimony or with artifacts, pictorial survivals, and archeological remains.

Answer 5

Document

Question 6

has been defiled as “an account of individual’s actions as a human agent and as a participant in social life.”

Answer 6

Human Document

Question 7

Robert Fox

PRIMARY OR SECONDARY?

Answer 7

PRIMARY

Question 8

Review Excerpts of Fox and Scott