Welcome to the Modern Studies assignment 2.

Learning Intentions You will learn to organise your time and meet deadlines Plan research; choose an appropriate method of research and be able to justify this. Set up the document for your assignment, cover page, introduction, chapters, bibliography. Explain and justify your position on an argument Identify bias (as you research think about whether the resource supports one side of the argument more than an other. If it does keep a note, with an explanation.) You need to discuss this in your final conclusion of your assignment.

GOAL: By the end of today (10/09/14) Insert a page at the beginning of your assignment as a cover page. Details will follow. Insert a page at the end of your assignment which will be your bibliography (list of websites, books and other documents you have used.) Including the dates you have used them. On this page you also need to keep a record of dates you have interviewed or surveyed people as part of your primary research. Have a notes page with information that you have found which is relevant to your hypothesis and relevant chapter heading. The introduction, chapter notes and bibliography should be ed to me.

Cover Page Your name: Your Regi Class: Your topic: Your hypothesis: Picture Use colour

Introduction What you are investigating Why this is important or interesting to you How you are going to investigate: – What primary research method and why (what are the advantages of using this one, see research methods booklet) – What secondary research method and why (what are the advantages of using this one, see research methods booklet)

COLLECTING EVIDENCE: You must collect evidence from at least two sources, one primary and one secondary. Before you begin to gather information you must think about what would be the best method to suit your investigation. For example, if you are researching something like – ‘violent protesting is the only way to achieve change’ – then an interview won’t be the best method, because it would be very difficult to find someone who would admit to being part of an illegal violent protest.

REMEMBER Remember in your conclusion you will have to evaluate your chosen methods – what worked well and what didn’t. You will also be required to report on what decisions you have had to make during your investigation, so it would be worth taking a note of these. (E.g. To conduct a survey of your peers in school, rather than out in the community, for health and safety reasons.) You will also be expected to identify any bias you discovered during your investigation. Again it would be a good idea to keep a note of this during your investigation. (In your bibliography you could note down what was biased and why you thought so.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A bibliography is the list of all the primary and secondary sources you have gotten your information from. You need to record where you are getting your information from as you go and hold it all in the one word document. (Remember Wikipedia is not an acceptable source, you need to find the original!) You also need to keep a log of other ways in which you have gathered evidence. (E.g. if you are conducting a survey, what date did you ask individuals questions on.) If you do not reference your information and claim it as your own this is plagiarism!