English 1102- NOTES

10/13/2014

Primary Research:

Collecting data about a given subject directly from the real world
-examples: surveys, interviews, observations, and analyzing artifacts
Survey-larger population and what their ideas are
Interview- one on one, gain personal perspective through interviewing
Observation- taking organized notes about occurrences in the world,
provides you with insight about specific events, people, or locales and a are
useful when you want to learn more about an event without the biased
viewpoint

Where do I start with this?

1. What do I want to discover?
2. How do I plan on discovering it?
3. Who am I going to talk to or survey? (call them your subjects or participants)
4. What do I expect to discover?

Secondary Research:

Speaks to the kind of source you are looking into rather than when you
should do it or its value to your research. Involves collections, analysis
and/or synthesizing existing research

Types of sources:
- Textbooks
- Analytical essays
- Reviews
- Criticisms
- Commentary
- Encyclopedia
- News Reports/biographies
- Histories
- Statistics
Interview might be a secondary source if: if it is a published interview with the
full transcript, usually interwoven in an article

Examples:

Shang= primary research

Gee= secondary research
Mayes= secondary research
Dorwick= primary research