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Secondary
Secondary research involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research. Secondary research is contrasted with primary research in that primary research involves the generation of data, whereas secondary research uses primary research sources as a source of data for analysis.
Self conducted research
Direct sources
Usually customers and prospective customers to ask questions and gather information from, such information can prove to be helpful and boost the work produced as it contains helpful analytics or facts, the only problem with asking customers questions is that you might get illegitimate answers or in-factual responses, but a majority of the time the answers given can be very useful as product materiel
Methods
Methods
Research that is conducted by one individual normally to find research to support their work and is mainly orchestrated by the producer of work in order to find supporting evidence, more valid points and to build up the work produced.
Conducting research can be very helpful thing to do as it sorely helps to build up work production and can help bring more factual pieces of evidence into the work flow.
Self conducted research can be more time consuming as you have to fact check what your researching to make sure its legit and not made up rubbish, but on the contrary research can also half your work time as your spending less time providing your own facts and instead going out and finding already made up facts/ information for yourself.
Gathering data and information and analysing them is the only way for a researcher to come to a conclusion.
Primary sources can be firsthand accounts of actual events written by an eyewitness or original literary or artistic works. They may be letters, official records, interviews, survey results, or un-analysed statistical data.
There are many different direct sources that can provide very useful quantities of factual and non-factual information, direct sources are the most common type of research materiel to go for as a majority of the time they provide very helpful bits of research that can be used.
Your research question and the kind of research you do will guide the types of resources you will need to complete your research. Students now have easy access to a wider range of information than ever before. Conducting research today requires that you understand how to locate resources
Having an understanding of where you can find your direct sources for research is a very important skill to have and it will reflect on how well you can do this in your work produced and the higher amounts of effort put into research the higher the reward outcome will be for the work produced.
Going to local libraries to read and gather information from factual books, reading from multiple sources such as fiction, non-fiction, etc, books are always a very trust worthy source for gathering any research required and is a base for any research from other methods.
Exploring the web to find information, doing this can prove very useful as there are many sources to search from in many different forms too, articles, pictures, documents, forums, etc. But when searching the web you have to be mindful that the information your gathering is factual one of the biggest culprits for useless or in-factual information is a website known as Wikipedia, although some of the information they provide may seem useful it might actually be manifested lies, this is because each article provided by the site can be manipulated by any individual who likes to tamper with facts, so when it comes to online research you have to be aware of the good sources and the bad.
Going out into the community and and surveying can be a good way to gather Intel from individuals based on a certain topics although this process can be tedious and time consuming, but this can be carried out on online forums as well, there are many useful websites to use just for surveying purposes.
Observation can be useful in many ways, such as watching videos on the matter or reviewing some form of footage or even physically observing to gathering the information needed.
For the best outcome of work packed full of good research the best thing to do is actually combine all the research methods that way you get a nice even mix of all medias and a wide variety of good research material and your more likely to get higher amounts of research done with the combination of all methods.
A research method that involves using already existing data. Existing data is summarised and collated to increase the overall effectiveness of research. Secondary research includes research material published in research reports and similar documents.
Use of research
The best way to use any research gathered is to go over it, fact check it and making sure its all viable as a source of independent data.
There are many uses for the new research gathered, one of the most important use is to make new ideas or foundation ideas based of the researched previously formed, generating ideas can be quite hard without knowing what to build it off of, so having that primary research really comes in handy.
Research is very useful for helping you to understand a certain topic, to help us expand what we already know or what we don't know at all, research is a vital step to take before doing and steps after, making sure to gather information that will help us to make an even better product than if we didn't do it and just dove right in.
Going over all the research you did to gather important points to help you produce ideas for the formation of your product, only using the most important parts to build up the ideas you need to start generating some good valuable ideas towards a product.
Taking what you've learnt to expand even more on or learn more from by sourcing more specif information on an only partly covered topic, doing this means you doubling up only you resources for idea generating.