Geography Definition & Meaning - Assignment

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Geography
27 March 2020
Dissertation Research Methodology
Common methodological approaches widely adopted include Questionnaires,
observations, Interviews, or documentary analysis.
i. Documentary analysis
The documentary analysis includes the gathering of evidence from current records. There
is no need to conduct interviews, assign questionnaires or behavioral assessment. The
documentary study is the primary method for researchers to collect details on their
research topics, but it may still be a powerful resource for contemporary social science.
Documents are measurable content through which information or concepts have been
registered ("Research Methodology and Ethics" 2017). Papers published or created on
paper, such as journal articles, official decision documents, leaflets and notes about
sessions are considered.
ii. Questionnaire
When the planned research query allows you to gather uniform (and thus comparable)
details from a variety of participants, then questionnaires might be the right tool to use.
Questionnaires would be used to gather both quantitative and qualitative results, but you
may not be expected to provide the degree of specificity in the qualitative answers to the
questionnaire that you would have provided in the interview. Questionnaires are
especially well adapted for analysis that aims to assess those metrics for a community of
citizens or to allow connections between individual groups ("Research Methodology and
Ethics" 2017).
iii. Observations
Observations can be part of either quantitative or qualitative studies. For example, if an
investigator wishes to assess if the addition of a highway sign creates a correlation to the
number of cars accelerating at a hazardous curve, he or she might sit next to the curve
and look at the number of cars which do and do not accelerate. There are a variety of
possible legal issues that can emerge from an empirical analysis (Loots & Charrett 2019).