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Primary and Secondary Sources: What is a secondary source?

"[O]ther material is secondary: it asks roughly the same questions as you do and uses the same kinds of data. Secondary material is other scholarship on your topic" (7).

Abbott, Andrew. Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials. U of Chicago P, 2014

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