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    between primary source and secondary source authors are its reliability and credibility. Secondary source authors hold certain disadvantages in that the authors did not directly experience the actual event, meaning that they do not have a first-hand account of the experience that occurred. Because these secondary source authors were not affected, their information could contain inaccurate data, or their opinions askew due to their lack of a direct experience. Although secondary sources may have their

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    Majority of students who enroll in history classes partake in analyzing and gaining knowledge from secondary sources. Secondary sources are second hand accounts after an event has occurred. In particular, there are two secondary sources that students utilize and they are lectures and Wikipedia. Despite being secondary sources, there should be careful consideration when analyzing them. Any material that is taught, displayed, or portrayed in lecture are far more reliable than what is presented in Wikipedia

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    primary sources, secondary sources and questionnaires. To analyze and interpret their relationship with the designer, and providing the relationship of how important between these five objects and communication design. Thereby enabling the designer to know they are facing the real needs of customers, and how they connect and related to each other.Introduction This research will explain five researches terminology that includes the case study, interview, primary sources, secondary sources and questionnaires

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    in Ancient Egypt was published in 1999 by Oxford University Press, A well-known source of educational publications. McDowell uses a small variety, but by no means lacking in quantity, of primary and secondary sources, the majority of which consisted of translations from either unearthed ostraca, or the less common papyrus. This Review will discuss the structure of the book, McDowell’s use of primary and secondary sources, and how she gets her argument across. This text contains an abundance of information

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    A secondary source is written after an event has occurred and is written by someone who has viewed the event second hand and has a different perspective, usually someone who looks beyond the main event and can broaden your view on the situation. Unlike a primary source coming from someone who has witnessed the event or heard first hand, the secondary source is to read about the event and give their perspective of the situation. Collecting a child’s secondary sources can come from their mother or

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    Module 3- Professional Learning Log # 4 Monica Eickmeyer The use of secondary data sources adds another resource for public health practitioners in policy and intervention development. Instead of just using primary resources, secondary resources may be integrated to provide robust data collectively. Also, multiple data sources may be applied to gain a better understanding of the public health concern. Data sets available for mortality, morbidity, health outcomes, social and living environments

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    - Advantage and dis-advantage the different data sources with examples from the current research: One of the main critical areas to consider in research is the sources of data. Data sources can be either: primary or secondary. Surbhi (2016 p.) defines primary data as the “data originated for the first time by the researcher through direct efforts and experience, specifically for the purpose of addressing the research problem” and defines secondary data as “second-hand information which is already

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    Part2 The article of Ian Lustick focuses on the critical problem of selective reliance on secondary historiographical sources by historically-minded political scientists. Lustick observes that political scientists often make mistakes by rooting their research without paying attention to the issue of how to select historical events and thus comes up with an approach that does not treat historiographies as “History,” but as particular interpretations of history that can be used to multiply the number

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    For this project, we were asked to find primary and secondary sources that pertain to writing within my major or possible future profession. My primary source came from an interview I conducted with Ruth Ann Panepinto, PhD. Dr. Panepinto, a Doctor of Psychology, which she earned from West Virginia University. She has over forty years of experience in the private and public sector in health services including serving as the Secretary of the Department of Health in Human Services in the state of West

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    The assembly and analysis of secondary data almost invariably improves the researcher 's understanding of the marketing problem, the various lines of inquiry that could or should be followed and the alternative courses of action which might be pursued. • Secondary sources help define the population. Secondary data can be extremely useful both in defining the population and in structuring the sample to be taken. For instance

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