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What types of primary research can be done?
Many types of primary research exist. This guide is designed to provide you with an overview of primary research that is often done in writing classes.

//__**Interviews: **__// Interviews are one-on-one or small group question and answer sessions. Interviews will provide a lot of information from a small number of people and are useful when you want to get an expert or knowledgeable opinion on a subject.

//__**Surveys: **__// Surveys are a form of questioning that is more rigid than interviews and that involve larger groups of people. Surveys will provide a limited amount of information from a large group of people and are useful when you want to learn what a larger population thinks.


 * __//Observations: //__**Observations involve taking organized notes about occurrences in the world. Observations provide you insight about specific people, events, or locales and are useful when you want to learn more about an event without the biased viewpoint of an interview.

__//**Analysis: **//__ Analysis involves collecting data and organizing it in some fashion based on criteria you develop. They are useful when you want to find some trend or pattern. A type of analysis would be to record commercials on three major television networks and analyze gender roles.

Where do I start?
Consider the following questions when beginning to think about conducting primary research:
 * What do I want to discover?
 * How do I plan on discovering it? (This is called your research methods or methodology)
 * Who am I going to talk to/observe/survey? (These people are called your subjects or participants)
 * How am I going to be able gain access to these groups or individuals?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What are my biases about this topic?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How can I make sure my biases are not reflected in my research methods?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What do I expect to discover?

//**On** __ 26th of January __// **you will start to [|create sample test] for each other and I will grade it as a quiz. Both the question and the answer part.**