Unit 5 Week 1

You ask what does the person mean in the acronym PAPER when in practice, and the answer would be that P in PAPER is to ask what is the purpose of the author putting the the text in that format or in that description, while A in Paper is the argument of the paper/text given. The second P stands for Presupposition In the text you are looking at, or in other words being the assumption of what is coming up in the text after reading the first few words/sentence's. E in the paper would then stand for epistemology or how truthful the text is and how reliable it is, and lastly the letter R in PAPER would then mean Relation to other texts. How related to other papers is it?

Basically if we get primary sources wrong from secondary sources then we tend to repeat or copy a mistake from a person or event, which happens daily in our lives. If we don’t cite correctly then we repeat the made up event of something that never happened and that then influences what can happen. If we are looking for a primary source we would look for key words, such as a person writing in a text saying “I ….” or something along those lines while secondary sources would relate to someone else commenting on something had happened after the fact. I just went and saw St. Helena explode (this would then be a primary as a person specifically saw it and wrote about it). While a secondary would use said comment made long ago and write about it in their interpretation to what the person had meant and would use information in a paper or comment.

If we interpret and put our own opinion as to what happened it is then false and spread wrong information and cause problems for others in the future. While if you were there and said what you saw that would become a primary source and cause a truthful answer to someone’s answer that is made in the future.