Ask Who Made a Historical Source - Practice 2

Identify creator, date, audience and purpose before using a record.

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Identify creator, date, audience and purpose before using a record. A primary source can reveal a perspective without being complete or neutral. The documents below are invented classroom examples, not archival quotations.

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A seller's advertisement may reveal how the seller wanted a product viewed. Checking its claims requires other evidence.

Three schematic record forms: a page of writing, a landscape picture and an unmarked object. Form alone cannot establish accuracy; ask about creator, date, audience and purpose.

Would you believe it?

A climate anomaly can be zero during warm weather: zero means equal to the chosen reference value, not a temperature of zero degrees.

Question 1 Invented source 6: a factory owner's notice. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? everyone without exception the owner every worker

Question 2 Invented source 7: a tenant's complaint. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? the tenant every landlord everyone without exception

Question 3 Invented source 8: a museum catalog entry. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? every visitor everyone without exception its catalog author

Question 4 Invented source 9: a soldier's letter. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? everyone without exception the soldier every civilian

Question 5 Invented source 10: a newspaper editorial. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? the editorial writer every reader everyone without exception

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