Savannah State University Primary Source Evaluation Discussion
Description
Identify a primary source document from a period of early American history and discuss the uses and limitations of the information in an assigned document.Your discussion post should be written and formatted as follows:
- Write a 3-paragraph post that shows you understand how to evaluate a primary source document.
- The first paragraph will discuss what makes a document a primary source vs. a secondary or tertiary source. You should rely on your reading of the article, Reading Primary Sources.pdf. While direct quotes or citations are NOT needed for this discussion, you do need to provide references to this document to support your argument(s).
- The second paragraph will discuss whether or not you consider your assigned document a primary source based on the qualifications you lay out in your first paragraph. Provide specific evidence from your document to support your assertions.
- The third paragraph will discuss the perspective of the author of your assigned document, the content of the document, what this content is useful for, and what the limitations of the content from the document are.
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