Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENT P

rosa: Oh, there you are, good. Sorry I’m a bit late - there was a long queue. So, have you worked out how to deal with this assignment then?
mick: Not yet, we’ve only been here a couple of minutes ourselves.
rosa : Can you just remind me what the task is exactly?
pete: Well, there are two, no, three, parts to it: first, we’ve got to write an essay about ways of collecting data. Then ...
rosa: What’s the title of the essay exactly?
mick: I’ve got it here: ’Assess the two main methods of collecting data in social science research’.
rosa: And how much do we need to write?
mick: Fifteen hundred words. That’s for the essay. Then, for the second part of the assignment, we have to choose one method of data collection, and ’carry out a small-scale study, making appropriate use of the method chosen to gather data from at least five subjects’.
rosa: And then we have to write a report on the study?
pete : That’s right, of three to four thousand words.
rosa: Did you get as far as discussing which form of data collection we should go for -questionnaire or interview, isn’t it?
mick: Yeah, I think we should use a questionnaire. It’ll be so much less time-consuming than organising interviews, I reckon. Once we’ve agreed on the wording of it, we only have to send it out and wait for the responses.
rosa: Yes, I think it probably would be quicker. But what did that article he gave us last week say about the quality of data from questionnaires?
mick: I’m pretty sure it recommended questionnaires as a source of ’highly reliable data’. As long as you design the questionnaire properly in the first place, the data will be fine.
rosa: No, I’m sure it talked about drawbacks as well, didn’t it? Something about the response rate and the problems you get if it’s too low.
mick: Yeah, but we only need data from five subjects anyway.
rosa: I suppose so. Another drawback I remember it mentioned was that questionnaire data tends not to reveal anything unexpected, because it is limited to the questions fixed in advance by the researcher.
mick: Come on, Rosa. This is only a practice. It’s not meant to be real research, is it?
rosa: Well, I’m not sure about that.
rosa: Maybe I’d better go through the article again, just to be sure. Can you remember what it was called?
mick: ’Sample Surveys in Social Science Research’, I think. By Mehta.
rosa: M-E-H-T-A ?
mick: Yeah. And he also recommended a more recent book, called ’Survey Research’, by Bell, I think. It’s in that series published by London University.
pete: And if we tried to use interviews instead, I saw a book in the departmental library that’ll be helpful: it’s called ’Interviews That Work’, by Wilson, published in Oxford in nineteen eighty-eight.
rosa: Right. I’ve got a tutorial now. Can we meet up again later this week? What about Friday morning?
pete: Suits me. Eleven o’clock?
rosa: Fine.
mick: Before Friday, I think we should all look through the reading list.