secondary source
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document that discusses information originally presented elsewhere
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- Instance of
- library science
- Subclass of
- source text
- Followed by
- tertiary source
- Follows
- primary source
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- different from
- secondary sector of the economy
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- topic's main category
- Category:Secondary sources
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Encyclopedic overview
Scipione Amati's History of the Kingdom of Woxu (1615), an example of a secondary source
In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source contrasts with a primary, or original, source of the information being discussed. A primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation or it may be a document created by such a person.
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