Newspaper Reading Habits
Our Research Proposal
Topic:Newspaper reading habits
1) Problem Definition:
-What is the purpose of the study? Our purpose is to find out the number of students who prefer newspapers in our college campus.
-How much is already known? So far there is no data collected on this topic. But the reason behind choosing this topic is to know how many people prefer newspapers over any other source of news related information such as magazines, journals, internet and so on.
-Is additional background information necessary? There is no requirement of background information as we are using direct observation methods in the form of questionnaire.
-What is to be measured?
In our research, the unit of measurement is the number of people. Based on our topic we have come to this conclusion as students are our primary source of information.
-Can the data be made available? Indeed,the data can be made available through the use of the internet and questionnaire methods.
-Should research be conducted? Our topic requires research as this topic is very unique and has not been done by many researchers in this particular topic.
-Can a hypothesis be formulated? A hypothesis cannot be formulated as the research methods conducted will be done through direct observation methods like questionnaire method.
2)Selection Of Basic Research Design:
-What type of questions need to be answered?
Some questions that need to be answered are
*Do you read newspaper?
*How often do you read newspaper?
*Which type of newspaper do you prefer?
*Which particular section of the newspaper do you like?
*Apart from the newspaper,which other source of news do you prefer reading?
-Are descriptive or causal findings required? Both these findings are required as they’re found to be the fundamental requirements for our study.
Topic:Newspaper reading habits
1) Problem Definition:
-What is the purpose of the study? Our purpose is to find out the number of students who prefer newspapers in our college campus.
-How much is already known? So far there is no data collected on this topic. But the reason behind choosing this topic is to know how many people prefer newspapers over any other source of news related information such as magazines, journals, internet and so on.
-Is additional background information necessary? There is no requirement of background information as we are using direct observation methods in the form of questionnaire.
-What is to be measured?
In our research, the unit of measurement is the number of people. Based on our topic we have come to this conclusion as students are our primary source of information.
-Can the data be made available? Indeed,the data can be made available through the use of the internet and questionnaire methods.
-Should research be conducted? Our topic requires research as this topic is very unique and has not been done by many researchers in this particular topic.
-Can a hypothesis be formulated? A hypothesis cannot be formulated as the research methods conducted will be done through direct observation methods like questionnaire method.
2)Selection Of Basic Research Design:
-What type of questions need to be answered?
Some questions that need to be answered are
*Do you read newspaper?
*How often do you read newspaper?
*Which type of newspaper do you prefer?
*Which particular section of the newspaper do you like?
*Apart from the newspaper,which other source of news do you prefer reading?
-Are descriptive or causal findings required? Both these findings are required as they’re found to be the fundamental requirements for our study.