Are Excerpts Primary Sources?

Some types of primary sources include: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (excerpts or translations acceptable): Diaries, speeches, oral histories, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official record, newspaper ads/stories.

Are excerpts secondary source?

Student research papers are secondary sources. You can often find excerpts of primary sources within secondary ones, such as a long quotation in a biography.

What is an example of a primary source?

Examples of primary sources:

Theses, dissertations, scholarly journal articles (research based), some government reports, symposia and conference proceedings, original artwork, poems, photographs, speeches, letters, memos, personal narratives, diaries, interviews, autobiographies, and correspondence.