Search the library catalog for secondary sources using these key terms.
Secondary source materials are used to interpret or draw conclusions about the events reported in primary sources. Second hand sources can be described as at least one step removed from the event. Therefore, when a writer looks at a primary document, and produces another work (i.e. an article) that tries to make sense of what he or she finds, the result is a secondary study or secondary source. For example, if a magazine writer wrote about a speech by the president, it would be a secondary source. The information is not original, but it is an analysis of the speech.
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