Media resources are any type of visual or print reference created by someone else and available to you in print of digitally. These include:
Interviews enable you to ask questions, seek advise, and utilize the experience of another person, usually an expert. Interview-based research helps make your project unique - the information you get from whomever you interview isn't going to be something that just anyone can look up on the internet! It allows you to ask more in-depth questions than on a survey.
Surveys can help you find out what people know or believe about an issue. They can be very useful to you as data, or to help you generate ideas. In particular, they can be helpful in figuring out ways to incorporate principled action into your project - what do people want or need to know/receive help with in relation to your project? In what form would they like to receive that help?
There are many different ways to survey people - digital surveys, paper surveys, verbal surveys. You can survey people you know, specific groups, or random samplings of people. Again, the information that you get through a survey is going to be unique - it's data no one else has - and will help to make your project original and special.
Research through observation and experience involves becoming personally involved in the topic that you want to research. This involves going to the place you're researching, watching someone who creates what you want to create, or observing a situation you're interested in. If you're doing a project to gather resources for a food bank, this might mean going there and watching a delivery, seeing who comes to pick up food, when they come, what they need. You might help pick up or deliver food, and experience what the workers there experience. If you're doing a project on bullying, this may involve watching your peers in the cafeteria, little kids on the playground, or the dynamics on the bus. Observation is one of the most personal types of research and, again, produces highly personal results.
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