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What techniques can be used to conduct research? Some techniques of conducting research would be to visit a library, this would be beneficial as everything in the books you are looking for is true material that you can rely on. You can also use the internet as a source of information, however you must always double check to see if the information you have found is true and reliable. Using a questionnaire is also another great way of gathering information that you need as you can find out exactly what people say. There is plenty other ways to conduct a research task which can benefit differently depending on what you are trying to find out. Ways you can keep and information trail is by writing a list of where you have looked and found your information, such as if you found something from a book you should reference where you found it from e.g. "page 225, book name, book author" this is beneficial so you don't use the same information over and over again. You can do the...

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8BLG8JR I have created a quantitative questionnaire via the website 'Survey Monkey' This is an electronic survey that people can get a link from and share it around. On survey monkey the responses are automated and shown to you so you don’t have to work it out yourself. For the second questionnaire I chose questions based off my first set of questions, i feel like this was beneficial so i have information to back everything up. I chose to stick with the type of questions such as “why did you think this” as i feel like that would be easier to back up information with. When I do my interview questioning people I am going to use the answers of this questionnaire as i feel like these are the most reliable answers.

For this task i made a quantitative questionnaire, I made a quantitative questionnaire so i could gather the answers from my classmates to give me some basic data on which they prefer more. I done this so i can get the mean number of how many people prefer the same things. I done this so when i go out to find my qualitative information i can gather it easier by selecting the most answered questions and elaborating them and asking why they feel this way. This is beneficial as it gave me a less broad spectrum of things to ask my classmates in the other questionnaires we had to make.