Answer to Question #173171 in History for Miza Luna

Question

What are the advantages and disadvantages of accessing secondary sources?

Answer 1

Accessing Secondary Sources

Accessing secondary sources have disadvantages and advantages.  Some advantages of accessing secondary include getting various information, insights, and perspectives from various experts. Secondary information is acquired from scholarly articles, journals, and books. Besides, these sources offer effective and efficient materials than primary sources that have to be planned, conducted, and analyzed. Disadvantages of accessing secondary data include extracting many documents before finding a related source ( Kalu, Unachukwu& Ibiam, 2019). Moreover, information might be one-sided or faked by researchers, which gives inaccurate results. Some sources are outdated, which might mislead scholars and other readers.

References

Kalu, A. O. U., Unachukwu, L. C., & Ibiam, O. (2019). Accessing Secondary Data: A Literature Review.