Understanding Research Methods

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As part of my research methods assignment, I have been asked to carry out a reading to identify and discuss different research methods in two different research studies and provide a critical and literary review of the same articles. The first text is called “Women in the Boardroom: Symbols and Substance?” .This paper proposes if women and minorities add a valuable new perspective that results in an enhanced corporate performance. The second is called “Knife crime statistics”. This paper summarises the available statistics that relate to knife crime.
To achieve a good grade, I have been ask to complete five different tasks that consist in: identify and discuss the use of the seven different methods, the strengths and weakness of three of them, write a literary review, create a bibliography and present a screen print showing the word count of my review.

Task 1 - Identify and discuss the use of the following methods:

Primary: consists of a collection of original data collected by the researcher. I found an example of Primary research in the article Knife crime statics; page number 4, table A. The table records the number and proportion of selected violent and sexual offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the police. In this case the empirical result is the number and proportion of the total selected offences in which a knife was used in each year since 2008/09. The author used information recorded by the police from England and Wales by using this information he supports his evidence and provides original thinking about the topic, in order to do so he compares the results between six different offences of data recorded from 2008 to 2012. This table in the report represents a new discovery. It can be seen fro...

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Scherer, K. (1997, May 1). http://business.highbeam.com. Retrieved january 24, 2014, from http://business.highbeam.com/412274/article-1G1-19611246/women-directors-talent-before-gender
Singh, D. V. (2008, July). Transforming Boardroom Cultures in Science, Engineering and Technology Organizations. Retrieved february 10, 2014, from International Centre for Women Business Leaders, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University: http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dinamic-content/media/Transforming%20Boardroom%20Cultures.pdf
Stringfield, S. & Teddlie, C. (2003). Mixed methods sampling strategies in social science research in Tsshakkori. Kemper, E.A., .
The Knife Crime Prevention programme, Youth Justice Board. (n.d.). Retrieved february 14, 2014, from http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/research-and-analysis/yjb/knife-crime-prevention-programme.pdf

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