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  1. Secondary source
  2. Graphic source
  3. Textual source
  4. Primary source
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Option 4 : Primary source

The sources from where we get information are called information sources and these comprise documents, humans, institutions as well as mass media like newspapers, radio, and television. We can group information sources into two broad categories as follows:

  •  Documentary Sources:- All recorded sources of information irrespective of their contents and forms come under documentary sources. These may be published or unpublished, in print or in electronic form. These may be books, periodicals, magazines, and others.
  • Non-documentary Sources:- Non-documentary sources of information are those sources that are not recorded in any form.

Based on the information contents and organizational level documentary sources can be grouped into:

  • Primary source
  • Secondary source
  • Tertiary source

 Here, A teacher asks her students to interview 10 women belonging to different socioeconomic classes and find out the challenges they face. So, these women are the main sources of information that is considered a primary source.

  • Primary sources are those sources has contain original material that has been published, reported, or recorded for the first time and have not been interpreted, commented upon, summarised, translated, or evaluated by a secondary party.
  • Primary sources include new raw data, a new interpretation of previously known facts or ideas, any new observation or experiment, etc.
  • It provides first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.
  • They are created by participants who experienced the events or conditions.
  • They are characterised by their content, regardless of whether they are available in the original format.

Thus, it is concluded that the teacher is encouraging primary source for the students.

Hint

  •  Secondary sources of information are mostly dependent upon primary sources of information for their existence. They usually present the contents of primary documents in condensed form or list them in a helpful way so that the existence of primary documents are known and access to them is made easy.
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