Walden University Historians Primary Source Analysis

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Read the attached source and answer the following questions in at least 350 words. If you use outside resources make sure to cite the source APA format

THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT THIS QUESTION. Just because something is written, does not make it true. This question asks you to consider the author’s background and status, and consider WHY they might say certain things, omit other details, or portray others they way they do. If an author says “everything was perfect and no one ever lied in Kings Landing,” you will ask yourself: a) does that sound possible? b) why might this person say that? c) who is reading this that might benefit from the author stating this? The answers to these questions ask you to be a little creative in your thinking

1)What might historians learn from this document?

2)What can the document tell us about the individual who produced it and the society from which he or she came?

3)How might this document have been understood at the time it was produced compared to a modern understanding?

4)Is there an additional meaning the author may not have intended to convey?

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Paper Outline
Title: Primary Source Analysis
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This is the main part of the paper. It addresses the attributes that can be projected from a
primary source. The paper is critical in its observation of the past as it takes us back to the mideighties.
Reference: Citation is done in APA style


Running head: PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS

Primary Source Analysis
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PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Primary Source Analysis
1)What might historians learn from this document?
Historians are inclined to learn how life happened during the periods of slavery and the

slave trade. The insightful composition portrayed by the kind of lives experienced by the wealthy
and the poor of the com...


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