Primary vs Secondary Sources
Primary sources are like getting the story straight from the horse's mouth - they're original, firsthand accounts created by people who actually experienced the event. These haven't been filtered or interpreted by anyone else yet.
Examples include diaries, letters, interviews with witnesses, photographs, autobiographies, and even old newspaper articles from when something actually happened. If your lolo wrote about his experiences during martial law, that's a primary source!
Secondary sources take primary sources and analyze, summarize, or interpret them. These are created after the fact by people who weren't there. Think textbooks, documentaries, biographies, and most websites you use for research projects.
Secondary sources aren't bad - they're super helpful for understanding complex topics. They just give you someone else's interpretation rather than the raw, original information.