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You should record:  \n• URL of any websites  \n• Titles of books or articles  \n• Authors where this is given  \nPrimary sources  \n• Primary sources are created‘first hand’ by someone with direct experience of a topic or event.  \n• They can include (for example) diary entries, video interviews, news footage filmed at the time, photographs.  \n• You can create your own primary sources in the form of interviews or surveys.  \n• If you are carrying out your own survey or interview, find out about research ethics (e.g. consent)  \n• Be aware of the limitations of your own research. You probably won’t be able to access a ‘representative sample’.  \n• If you choose to do an interview, who are you interviewing and why?  \n• More information about creating primary sources is available here:  \n[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9rn3k7/revision/7](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9rn3k7/revision/7)  \nSecondary sources  \n• Secondary sources are created by someone removed from the topic or event.  \n• They are usually created using primary sources.  \n• For example, a journal article that uses lots of diary entries written atthe time, a YouTube documentary using lots of news footage with anew voice over added, a school text book.  \nExamples of sources  \nPrimary sources  \n• You create a 4-question survey and send it to friends and family.  \n• An audio recording you have made of an interview with a local historian.  \n• Photographs taken at the time of your local town.  \n• Mobile phone video clips of a demonstration taken at the time.  \nSecondary sources  \n• Documents from a local archive.  \n• A book about local history from the library.  \n• A website that has brought together the audio of lots of interviews with local people.  \n• A Podcast  \n• A YouTube documentary  \nSource reliability  \n• Can you trust the sources you have used?  \n• The key things to consider are:  \n• Who produced the source?  \n• Where is it published?  \n• Don’t confuse reliability (can I trust this?) with utility (is it useful?)  \n• Don’t get too worried about date.  \nUseful places to find out more  \n• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdxj96f](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdxj96f)  \n• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkspd6f](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkspd6f)  \n• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcjhfcw/revision/11](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcjhfcw/revision/11)  \n• [https://edshare.gcu.ac.uk/6317/1/quality%20of%20sources.pdf](https://edshare.gcu.ac.uk/6317/1/quality%20of%20sources.pdf)  \n[Do you think these are reliable sources?]  \nRead through the BBC sources and keep the questions in mind when you look at the next slides.  \nCan you spot a reliable source?  \n• In the next slides you will look at some examples of secondary sources.  \n• Have a look and decide whether you think they are reliable.  \n• If so, why?  \n• If not, why not?  \n• A source doesn’t have to be completely reliable or completely unreliable – you might decide that it is somewhere in the middle.  \nExample 1  \nA self-published history book on Amazon.  \n• The author bio reads “I am an expert in local hist","cbCaicgX1tnHWfIN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicgX1tnHWfIN","pdf",161857,14,"English","# Source evaluation\n## Use different types of source\n## Primary and secondary sources\n## Examples of sources\n## Source reliability\n## Useful places to find out more\n## Evaluating sample sources","[{\"question\":\"What does using different types of sources mean in a research project?\",\"answer\":\"A range of source types can include books, magazines, articles, journals, and videos. 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