Documents

Question 1

What is Personal Documents?

Answer 1

Documents such as personal diaries, letters

Question 2

Advantages of Personal Documents?

Answer 2

*Personal documents can provide greater validity in researching the worldwide view on individual
* Cheap
* In depth and detailed

Question 3

Disadvantages of Personal Documents?

Answer 3

• Can be hard to access
• Invasion of privacy Informed ConsentConfidentiality
• Open to interpretation
• someone’s Personal view this would bean bias and unreliable

Question 4

What is Public Documents?

Answer 4

government documents that havebeen released such as OFSTED report

Question 5

Advantage of Public Documents?

Answer 5

• easy to access
• Cheap
• In depth data

Question 6

Disadvantage ofPublic Document?

Answer 6

-Can take time to gain access
-Unreliable
-Open to interpretation
-Biased

Question 7

What is Historical Documents?

Answer 7

Research that has been carried out in the same area or on the same topic e.g. newspaper and magazines, tv and radio broadcasts

Question 8

Advantage of Historical Documents?

Answer 8

*Can be easy to access
* Historical Document can be only way of gaining an insight into lives of individuals in past

Question 9

Disadvantage Historical Documents?

Answer 9

• May not be specific to the research being conducted
• Invasion of Privacy
• Open to interpretation which is unreliable because of personal view
• Gaining access-Historical documents may be kept away from public or require special permissions
• Time - historical documents may require experts to understand language or context of documents.Documents may need to be translated from different languages - time consuming