Harvey wrote:
> But...but...doesn't a properly constructed citation already indicate
whether it is primary or
> secondary? What am I missing here?
No Harvey, to my knowledge, citations don't indicate if the source
was primary or secondary. Nor should they make such an indication.
There are a few reasons for this, but two that strinke me
as very convincing are:
1) Some sources, such as Death Certs. contain a mix of primary
and secondary information.
2) Primary sources can also be wrong. It may be that there
are fewer ways that a Primary source can be wrong, and so
it might be that the probability of a Primary Source is wrong
is a bit lower than the probablility that a Secondary Source
source is wrong.
jr
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