Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Research Methods
There are two types of research primary and secondarySecondary research should include good materials that
consist of examples and arguments that would help support your research. Secondary could be found on the internet, textbooks, scholarly
journals, audio visual experiences.With Textbooks you would use the index/reference page to
found the information quickly. Text books
are reliable and have well established ideas in themScholar Journals are quality controlled so they are often
reliable and are good for specific information. They are also found quite
easily on Google scholar which is a database that has thousands of different
articles.
Newspapers and magazines are a good source of research as
newspapers and magazines keep up with the changing opinions of people. Good
examples of this are The Guardian newspaper as they offer both sides of
stories. Although newspapers are often written directly for people so the articles
might be biasedTelevision documentaries are a good source of secondary
research as you can get first hand quotes from the documentaries about the
subject. The documentaries or televisions can be biased as they are edited to
fit a certain point of view. Good examples on where to find information could
be BBC Iplayer.Social networking is a good secondary research method. Items
like Twitter is good as you can get a quick and easy response. Although the
views could be biased as it might not be them. Blogs for example might be
reliable as it could be done by a professional are by anyone who has a interest
in the subject
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