💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Primary source"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| secondary sourcenoun | (historiography) A study of past events or a past author written from the perspective of a later period of time; a document that draws on one or more historical primary sources and interprets or analyses them, including documents such as newspapers whose accuracy is open to question. |
| secondary literaturenoun | secondary source |
| tertiary sourcenoun | (general scholarship and historiography) A selection, distillation, summary or compilation of primary sources, secondary sources, or both. |
| sourceworknoun | (education) A historical work that emphasizes the use of sources. |
| quellenforschungnoun | The study of the sources of, or influences upon, a literary work. |
| source criticismnoun | The critical evaluation of a source of information in terms of intent, date, bias, authenticity and reliability by means of the methodologies of the humanities. |
| higher criticismnoun | Synonym of historical criticism (“study of received texts, especially the Bible, as historical sources”). |
| scholarly methodnoun | The body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. |
| source languagenoun | (linguistics, translation studies) The language from which a translation is done. |
| subjectnoun | The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc. |
| literaturenoun | The body of all written works. |
| secondary researchnoun | Research performed through the summary, collation or synthesis of the results of existing research. |
| substudynoun | A subset of a study |
| historical criticismnoun | The systematic study of received texts, especially the Bible, as documents composed in a particular historical context with varying reliability as sources. |
| studiesnoun | An academic field of study concerning the given subject. |
| critical commentarynoun | A detailed text in which the writer employs critical thinking to analyze the subject and considers it from several angles. |
| corpusnoun | A collection of written or spoken texts. |
| studysnoun | Misspelling of studies. [An academic field of study concerning the given subject.] |
| academicnoun | A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. |
| classicsnoun | Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, history etc. |
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