Chapter three was a quite relative read as Professor Evans and I discussed a few of the concepts this morning. I am currently debating on which facet of sports business I want to write about for our major project. Discussing it with her and reading chapter three as helped me really narrow my choices down. A few items that stuck out to me were the concepts of developing a research question, knowing your knowledge of the topic, and writing a research proposal. “A research question should be clearly stated and provide the specific focus and scope of your research” is how our book defines it. I really like this definition have wrote a few for my narrowed down topic choices. Having an interest in a topic already is a better starting point to doing a research paper, and it makes you more vested then otherwise. The concept of a research proposal certainly felt like another assignment by itself, but it would be great ground work for your project.
Chapter four was really insightful. Looking at all the different perspectives of conducting research has certainly boarding my outlook. I just normally use Google when I doing research check out the top four or five links, I never really cared if the sources where primary or secondary. After reading that section I will be more intent on knowing what kind of sources they are. I always enjoyed how the book show examples by taking apart questions and identified the main “terms” to enhance the search function and results. The last thing I took a look over where syndicated resources, majority of the time when I find information I seem to careless look past the recency of the data.
Overall I enjoyed these reading way more than the previous ones, show as long as they continue I wont mind.
You have some good thoughts here, but I'm having a little trouble following it because of typos. Maybe you need to slow down a bit or review before posting?
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