Advantages and Disadvantages of Sources

Advantages- can be very accurate (textbooks)

Easy to read and accessible (libraries)

Can be either a primary or secondary source

Disadvantages- Can be biased (sports report)

•Difficult to translate if its in a language no one speaks anymore (Egyptian hieroglyphics)

•Easily destroyed, lost or damaged

–Advantages:

•Accurate

•From the time

•A lot of information can be found from one object

–Disadvantages

•Expensive to find and very difficult to find

•Can be damaged

•Not accessible to the public

–Advantages:

•Give us a picture of what the past looked like

Disadvantages

•can try make someone look better

•Isn’t a full picture of an event

•Can be misinterpreted

•Limited

–Advantages

•Entertaining

•Easy to listen to

–Disadvantages

•Relies on memory

•Can be forgotten

•Details may change (broken telephone)

•Teller may try to make themselves look better

•Myth and legends