First research paper One paper must be a social survey. We will discuss this in detail in class but the basic idea is to ask questions of some sample of people to find out what they think or do about something. An obvious example is polling voters about their candidate preference. You could survey citizens of Corpus on their views about crime or the water situation or sports or whatever. You could survey people that work where you do about some issue on the job.
Secondary analysis refers to the use of data already collected by someone else.
It may be data collected by the Census Bureau or the Bureau of Labor Statistics or Vital Statistics or the Uniform Crime Reports or it may be data already in the files of some organization. Please be sure you meet this minimum requirement. Late work of any kind will be penalized 10 points for each regular working day it is late. Papers will be graded first, on how well they actually carry out the steps involved in each type of research. Next they will be graded as to clarity and organization.