PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES Evaluating Nonfiction text BRAINSTORM
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES Evaluating Non-fiction text
BRAINSTORM What is a non-fiction text? Textbooks Newspapers Magazine articles Based on fact
WRITERS OF NON-FICTION TEXT SHOULD USE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
WHAT ARE PRIMARY SOURCES? • Primary sources • firsthand accounts and graphics of event • • • Diaries Newspapers (could be secondary) Photographs Autobiography Film footage Letters Objects from the time Speeches Documents Quote from a witness
PRIMARY SOURCE • The U. S. constitution (document)
PRIMARY SOURCE • Diary of Anne Frank
PRIMARY SOURCE • Photo of September 11 attacks
PRIMARY SOURCE • Newspaper • Quote from person who participated
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR AUTHORS OF NON-FICTION TO INCLUDE PRIMARY SOURCES? • Makes story more reliable • Accurate or correct • Factual • Less bias
WHAT ARE SECONDARY SOURCES? • An account of a story based on the writings or evidence of people other than the author. Accounts are written by people that have not observed the event. • • • Biographies Textbooks Encyclopedias Drawing (not at time of event) Quote from an expert (not a witness) website
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PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SOURCE? • photograph of Titanic
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PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SOURCE? • Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
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PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SOURCE? • website www. titanic-facts. com
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