Thursday 19 January 2012

research techniques


Research is getting information to help back up your ideas and opinions in a pace of work. This helps it to be more reliable and trustworthy. Sum of this can be fact or it can be statements from people or diary entries. You can get research from “experts” that you are interviewing and this can be in the form of research that they have done of a personal statement. You can you research and put it in the form of equations, grapes or percentages and you can use it in your own research. Also you can use artefacts or documents in your research. There are two types of research qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research is also quality research and this can be from one to on interviews, diary entries and one to one interviews. This type of research is more personal and less reliable. The advantages of the research are it easily accessible, it can have expression, meaning and feeling, it gives the personal opinion of people and it give a personal insight of the life’s of the people. The disadvantages of it are they can be bias and it is not authentic and not reliable. Quantitative research is in the form of exams results, charts, statistics, graph and tailing. This research is in the form of statistics and can be more reliable than qualitative research. The advantages of it reliable information, it’s not bias and it’s quick to use. The disadvantages are the statistic has to be updated costly and has a lace of feeling. An example of this is in the film “super size me” where and man eats McDonalds for one month. At the beginning with the statistics about McDonalds and how America is effected by them. It is done is a way that is entertaining with him voiceovers it and has information done as animations. It’s done in at the end of the film with pictures and text with what has happened after the film has been shown at a festival.