Task: 3 and 4
Task: 3 and 4
Task 3: Evaluate the importance of using primary sources
Positives
Positives
1: You own it
Conducting a study that creates a primary source as a way to get information is useful because of how you own it and know that it is completely based on the truth and none of it was falsified. As long as the research was carried out in a fair manner then the result that is acquired will always be accurate.
2: It is reliable
The answers you receive from primary sources are always reliable because of it was personally made to receive an answer that will be completely fair without taking personal bias into account.
3: You can ask your own questions
Creating a primary source is useful because of how you can set up your own questions that will be answered by people. This allows you to receive answers to the questions you want.
4: You can get direct feedback
Creating a survey to make your own primary source will allow you to make your own questions that will always give you feedback. This is allows you to change you're product/services in a way which will make you target audience like your product more.
5: It gives different perspectives
A primary source of information can come with deep insightful words, thoughts and feelings of people who have different points of the world or time and will always offer up a different perspective when it comes to answering a question.
6: It gives first-hand accounts on the subject
Primary sources always give a first-hand view on the topic from their research and how the experiment was conducted. This is useful because of how people will be able to notice if they are using bias or the experiment was conducting in the wrong way.
7: It is better than Secondary Sources
Primary Sources are better than Secondary Sources because of how a person or group preformed an experiment to gather information rather than using information that was gathered in the past which might be wrong or biased. An example of this would be if a
Negatives
1: Small Audience
The negatives of using a Primary Source is that it may have been conducted on a small audience which might lead to an inaccurate result. An example of this would be if you asked a group of friends about what they thought about a certain movie and due to their similar opinions they give the same answer.
2: External Factors
Primary Sources may have wrong results if the people that the experiment are being conducted on might be aware that they are being observed and might acted differently. An example of this is when workers are being watched to see if they work better with dimmer lights, they worked harder because of the fact that they were being watched.
3: Expensive
Primary Sources can be expensive to conduct if you wish to apply the research to a wider target audience and the only way to reach a wide audience is by making a survey which anybody could answer which would make it impossible to get the answer from your target audience.
4: Time Consuming
Conducting a study that creates a primary source as a way to get information is useful because of how you own it and know that it is completely based on the truth and none of it was falsified. As long as the research was carried out in a fair manner then the result that is acquired will always be accurate.
2: It is reliable
The answers you receive from primary sources are always reliable because of it was personally made to receive an answer that will be completely fair without taking personal bias into account.
3: You can ask your own questions
Creating a primary source is useful because of how you can set up your own questions that will be answered by people. This allows you to receive answers to the questions you want.
4: You can get direct feedback
Creating a survey to make your own primary source will allow you to make your own questions that will always give you feedback. This is allows you to change you're product/services in a way which will make you target audience like your product more.
5: It gives different perspectives
A primary source of information can come with deep insightful words, thoughts and feelings of people who have different points of the world or time and will always offer up a different perspective when it comes to answering a question.
6: It gives first-hand accounts on the subject
Primary sources always give a first-hand view on the topic from their research and how the experiment was conducted. This is useful because of how people will be able to notice if they are using bias or the experiment was conducting in the wrong way.
7: It is better than Secondary Sources
Primary Sources are better than Secondary Sources because of how a person or group preformed an experiment to gather information rather than using information that was gathered in the past which might be wrong or biased. An example of this would be if a
Negatives
1: Small Audience
The negatives of using a Primary Source is that it may have been conducted on a small audience which might lead to an inaccurate result. An example of this would be if you asked a group of friends about what they thought about a certain movie and due to their similar opinions they give the same answer.
2: External Factors
Primary Sources may have wrong results if the people that the experiment are being conducted on might be aware that they are being observed and might acted differently. An example of this is when workers are being watched to see if they work better with dimmer lights, they worked harder because of the fact that they were being watched.
3: Expensive
Primary Sources can be expensive to conduct if you wish to apply the research to a wider target audience and the only way to reach a wide audience is by making a survey which anybody could answer which would make it impossible to get the answer from your target audience.
4: Time Consuming
Primary Sources can take a lot of time to create a conclusive result due to this many Primary Sources might be wrong because of the fact that the researcher might not have taken the time to fully research and gain half finished research.
5: Not always feasible
Some research projects, while offering valuable information, are not simply not possible. Many are just too large and would require too much funding to be carried out by anyone aside from the large companies. An example would be if McDonald's to tried to interview everyone of their consumers who ate at their stores on a certain day, doing this would need a large amount of researchers, which would cost too much.
Conclusion
While Primary Sources might have their own flaws that would make the process take longer and might have factors that might skew the result, overall Primary Sources are a valuable way to acquire information on topics in a fair and unbiased matter.
5: Not always feasible
Some research projects, while offering valuable information, are not simply not possible. Many are just too large and would require too much funding to be carried out by anyone aside from the large companies. An example would be if McDonald's to tried to interview everyone of their consumers who ate at their stores on a certain day, doing this would need a large amount of researchers, which would cost too much.
Conclusion
While Primary Sources might have their own flaws that would make the process take longer and might have factors that might skew the result, overall Primary Sources are a valuable way to acquire information on topics in a fair and unbiased matter.
Task 4: You will use Harvard referencing for all your research on the course, describe this method of referencing
Harvard referencing is a system that students, writers and researchers use to incorporate a quote from a website, book, TV show or online video and in order to support their claims without breaking any intellectual property laws. The way it is done it by linking where the primary source of information was found from, like a webpage, the name of the person or website who wrote and placing the date it was found in case the evidence is changed at a later date.
Harvard Referencing is used as a way for people to refer to the primary source that supports their claims in a formal method that is integrated into you writing so that your thoughts and opinions are more valid then they would be if there was no references.
Harvard referencing is a system that students, writers and researchers use to incorporate a quote from a website, book, TV show or online video and in order to support their claims without breaking any intellectual property laws. The way it is done it by linking where the primary source of information was found from, like a webpage, the name of the person or website who wrote and placing the date it was found in case the evidence is changed at a later date.
A reference list is a list of all of your references in alphabetical order. This is similar to an index and is used as a way to easily find the reference that was used. This list contains parenthesises which can be used to find the correct sources even easier.
Harvard Referencing is used as a way for people to refer to the primary source that supports their claims in a formal method that is integrated into you writing so that your thoughts and opinions are more valid then they would be if there was no references.
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