The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although you forgot to attach the options for this question, we can comment on the following.
What are you doing when you use primary and secondary sources to support your compare-and-contrast essay?
The correct answer is "gathering details."
You have to gather details, important details that allow you to create the kind of arguments needed to include valid information that supports your work. Otherwise, the essay is going to lack relevance for the readers.
Primary sources are very important when doing research. A primary source is the source of information provided by a person that lived in the time when the event occurred or directly witnessed the event or the incident. It could be a testimony, an interview in a newspaper of that time, a photograph, or an original video. A secondary resource could be an encyclopedia, a journal, biographies, dictionaries, and textbooks.
