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What is a Primary Source
Information sources include records of events or evidence as they first happened without any interpretation or commentary. It is information shown (novel) for the first time or original materials on which other research is based. Primary sources display original thinking, report on new discoveries, or share insight.
It includes theses, dissertations, scholarly journal articles (research-based reporting on new discoveries or conferring the findings of previously published findings), some government reports, symposia and conference proceedings, original artwork, poems, photographs, speeches, letters, memos, personal narratives, diaries, interviews, autobiographies, and correspondence.
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