Methodology focus

While I have made a small start on the second assignment, I need to decide what specific area I should focus on. I'm not sure whether to take a very broad look at what researchers (academic, governmental, commercial?) are doing, or narrow it down to specific types of researchers and subjects. I will be meeting with the biodiversity co-ordinator at my work to discuss how that project has been going, but from what I understand, their focus has been largely life sciences (and some physical sciences?) but I will have to find out more.

The literature review turned up a lot of information about what social science researchers are also doing as well as the fact they are seeking to utilise institutional repositories to organise and store data they find as well. This might (and only maybe) more relevant in a LIS setting. I think you could probably go a bit mad with this though...

One month on...

Thought I'd better check in, one month since the previous post is a bit much. We've had midterm break and have had a few lectures since the holidays, mainly concerning research methods, topics after the break have involved covering quantitative and qualitative research methods in detail up until this point in time. I was somewhat dissapointed at my mark for the first assignment (although it was a decent pass at least!), though the feedback was very useful and I think my main area for improvement is my referencing and possibly the structure of the assignment.