Methodology lesson

Food security in the wealthiest nation on earth? • Great video here

Methodology (recap)

Selection Brief explanations of why particular material was used e.g. one website over another

Range of research Commenting on the range of research sources uses i.e. to provide balance and avoid bias

‘Age’ of resources Commenting on how up to date some materials are, compared to others

Bias Commenting on the bias that might be present in some sources e.g. the Economist compared to New Internationalist

Reliability Commenting on the authors e.g. academic researchers versus opinions in blogs or newspaper articles

Comparison Comparing one source to another and identifying discrepancies e.g. earthquake death tolls of economic losses

What sources have you used?

• List them now …

• TITLE AUTHOR (s)

What sources have you used?

• List them now …

• TITLE AUTHOR (s)

• Beddington Report

• National Geographic

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Your turn

• Write your own methodology now!

• Can do in pairs if you want to.

• One source I used was the National Geographic website. The article I read was called The New Face of Hunger, written by Tracie McMillan. I can take this article as reliable as McMillan is the author of ‘The America Way of Eating’ and is a Senior Fellow at Brandeis University. The article was published in XXX deeming this source to be up to date. National Geographic is a world renowned magazine and has been published since 1888, further increasing the reliability and credibility of this source. In contrast to the National Geographic website I chose not to use Wikipedia as it is an open website which allows members to edit information. This would decrease its reliability.