WHAT FACTS DID YOU FIND IN YOUR RESEARCH ABOUT Plane Crash Caught occurred in 1978 in San Diego close to NorthPark city
While you are writing, cite your sources in an abbreviated way at the end of the sentence. (Gleick 142) (textbook 547) (1968 Documentary) Like so.
use The Washington Post newspaper as primary source
Cannon, Lou and Cannon Carl.”Planes Collide, Killing 142″, The Washington Post, September 26, 1978.
and choose two Secondary sources must be a scholarly book or article, or a RELIABLE scholarly internet site or webpage. (Wikipedia or history.com or like cites are not appropriate)
please note that A SECONDARY SOURCE is something written by a historian about the past. Historians do extensive research and then interpret and create a cohesive, accurate account of some topic in the past. It is “second-hand” information, because you are reading the historian’s work, not something created by the actual historical actors in the past. Secondary sources help give you background information, so that you can understand the significance of events in your person’s life
Suggestions for secondary sources: NON FICTION books (not novels) about the era or about a topic important to your person in his/her era, biographies, scholarly articles. For example, a secondary source might be a book about the 1960s if your person had a life-changing event in the 1960s. Or a university website might have information – careful that you don’t stumble on a page that was created by a university student as part of a class project.
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