Exploring Research worksheet
You are required to complete the tasks on this sheet and place the content in your website section called
RESEARCH. You will be looking at three sections, these should be clear on the page. They are in RED on this
document.
Task 1/3: Tools
You are required to think about each of the following tools for research and talk about advantages, disadvantages and show
an example. A table has been included to help with this, or you can create headings on the Weebly page for each one.
Write detailed answers for each box and add an image for each example (this could be a photo, logo, etc).
Tool Advantage
Do not need to be online to use
a library, librarians are able to
help you out, good
environment to concentrate,
LRC
access to technology
Portable, does not require
power, specialized information,
no knowledge barrier in terms
Books
of use, has an index to navigate
the book with more ease, more
reliable then the internet,
Almost limitless information,
very accessible, can access at
any time, can back up research,
can be updated and kept
Web
current, you can get books
online
Huge amount of information,
infographic, very good for
different learning styles, easy to
navigate and lots of videos and
Youtube
available, comments section,
removed dislike button, step by
step guide, can view in own
time
People are will answer
questions that you propose, can
find shared information, not
geographically locked can
access from anywhere, can
Social
debate with others, brilliant for
media/forum
asking for help, can look
through other people who have
asked the questions you want
answered, can be extremely up
to date,
Documentaries, can be more
engaging and entertaining,
Streaming good variety,
services
DVD/BluRay Can access BTS and other
additional content, original
versions of things, can be
viewed whenever, very
accessible, portable, easy to
Disadvantage Example (with photo/url evidence)
It lacks convinence as you have
to travel, may not have the
book that you want, outdated
information
Finite amount of information,
they are fragile can be
damaged, not good for the
The Illusion Of Life (12 Principles)
environment, can be expensive,
Technical barrier to access,
there is false information,
technical knowledge barrier,
information maybe too
complected, can be slow, the
exact search term you search
may not appear, can get
distracted,
Can be outdated,
advertisements, production
quality may vary, clickbait, can
be dragged out to be
monetised and lack substance
and quality from it, can be
removed, subtitles are not
always of a good level,
A lot of bots, some people can
be toxic, people can be bias,
censorship, can get viruses, can
get doxed, laziness, can reach a
wide audience, can be
distracted,
Lack of information, you have
to pay for streaming service,
adverts, can stream stuff
illegally, can be dramatized, can
be geolocked
Outdated, fragile, easy to loose,
can be expensive, once they
break they are broken, finite
resource,
 download from disks,

Task 2/3: Methods

This time think about each of the methods in the table below and consider what the benefits and drawbacks of them are.

Method Advantage Disadvantage

In person can keep people are engaged, can gain lots Can be hard to have people to complete there
Conducting of information, can be very focused in what you ask, surveys, vague answers or unrelated answers,
survey can be easy to compare answers, can get get
multiple viewpoints, no geographical lock,
Can gain knowledge, can be a good way of getting People could take offense, can be hard to find
Interviewing detailed information, can get opinions from all people who have time to be interviewed, if there
people different sorts of people, is no relationship it can lead to being awkward,
could be dangerous,
Can have a freedom from media scrutiny, can come Can be interrupted, can become side tracked
to solutions quickly, can have a discourse with from point of discussion, people can be ignorant,
Group disagreements, can see relative opinions, an environment where no one want to talk can
discussions be built, one person can change the
environment, people may coast in. group
discussion,
Can find specific information, you can trust it, varied It can be time consuming, can be expensive, may
Primary
viewpoints, you can choose the nature of the have to travel, can be limited to what you can do,
research
responses, can get limited feedback,
Someone else has done it, can access data and If copied word for word it looks like plagiarism,
Secondary
information quicker, easily accessible, can be done reliability can be questionable, not as focused as
Research
by experts, primary research, can be unreliable,
Can go into more detail, useful for quotes, Takes longer to go through and harder to make
Qualitative
comparisons, have to put more information in
Data
the questions, not as exact,
Easier to draw comparison, numbers are more Lacks the detail you may want, harder to tell if
Quantitative
objectives, people are not taking survey seriously, can be
Data
used

Task 3/3: Skills

Finally, think about what skills you should be working on when conducting research. You can consider the animation you’ll
be making when answering these questions if it helps.

Skill How I will do this

Finding the I may contact people through teams/forms as this is a way I can access the most people in the group.
right audience You can be limited to who you can contact through teams.
to ask
Asking the Find out about an animation that makes you happy or sad. To find this out I would ask open ended
right questions to find this information out.
questions
Interpreting Because this will be qualitative I will have to pick out quotes from what people say.
the answers
usefully