Primary and Secondary Research Lecture

This mooring the group were invited to a lecture given on different types of research we have used and will be used for our Final Major Project and documented in our 500 word Project Proposal in sufficient depth for the readers to evaluate the proposed study. 

In the lecture we discussed what primary and secondary sources of research were. 

A primary source of research is an original record created an the time the event occurred such as newspapers, speeches, exhibitions and photographs.

Secondary sources are usually written as the event has occurred. Secondary sources assign values to, analyse and draw conclusions about events reported in primary sources. 

The breadth of our research sources will effect our final mark so we have been encouraged not to just use the internet to gather information but use published sources such as books and magazines and if possible to contact artists and designers to get a first hand account of their work.

To document our secondary research sources we will use a Harvard format referencing system, showing the date, format and source of the research.