Sources + Reference Test
In English class today, we learned about sources in an academic essay, and spent the rest of the time working on the reference test via google documents. First, Mr.Paterson taught us that one of the major differences between an essay and an academic essay is that they are backed up by data and information. Within them, there are two kinds called primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources are pieces of data collected by ourselves, while the latter is information gathered by another. For example, a survey by a researcher you found online, is considered a secondary source. The teacher taught us that those are more found more frequently in academic essays because they’re more trustworthy. You might be asking yourself, how so? Well, when we try to gather information ourselves, it often times turns out inaccurate or unbalanced. Mr.Paterson used the height of people as an example. If you only ask a few people, it cannot represent the entire race. In addition, if you only ask ...