Question

How is a primary source different from a secondary source?

Primary sources are often eyewitness accounts; secondary sources have been researched and shaped.

Secondary sources are usually quite old; primary sources tend to be quite new.

Secondary sources are usually unreliable; primary sources are usually true.

Secondary sources are usually written; primary sources are usually filmed.

Answer 1

primary is from the person themself. secondary is somebody else writing about an event or person they are not or were not in.