Primary and Secondary Sources Comparison

Primary and secondary sources both have in common is that they both expresses itself with the same information but just in a different way, in events and viewpoints. Primary source makes it different from secondary is that primary is firsthand account of an event. Such as if the person was literally there. A few examples of primary sources are speeches, oral histories, eyewitness news report, interviews, literary works, pubic documents, this such as that. Secondary sources is different because it is express in a secondhand account, it is written by a writer who did not participate directly in the events, they are not literally there. A few examples of secondary sources are encyclopedias, biographies, reference books, history books, magazine articles. Primary and secondary sources are helpful because it expresses many viewpoints in different ways such as first-hand person and second-hand person.