{"id":39,"date":"2022-04-04T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/esc-businesscomskills\/chapter\/module-4-assignment-secondary-research\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:27:38","slug":"chapter-4-assignment-secondary-research","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/esc-businesscomskills\/chapter\/chapter-4-assignment-secondary-research\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 4 Assignment: Secondary Research","rendered":"Chapter 4 Assignment: Secondary Research"},"content":{"raw":"Open Pedagogy Assignments are assignments in which students use their agency and creativity to create knowledge artifacts that can support their own learning, their classmates\u2019 learning, and the learning of students around the world. (See this peer-reviewed article<\/a> for more details.) The assignment on this page is aligned to a learning outcomes of Business Communication for Managers<\/a> and we\u2019ve identified the module where the reading appears. All of the assignments can be created with a cell phone camera or any video recording device, Google or Word documents, and your learning management system.\u00a0<\/em>\r\n

Learning Outcome 4.1.5: Explain secondary research and how it is used to provide support to the report<\/h2>\r\nIn the module on Research<\/a>, we provide a general overview about the role of primary and secondary research in writing business reports. For this assignment, you are going to work with a small group to hunt down useful links and resources for your fellow students about local businesses. This work will become a living document that future students will use.\r\n\r\nThink of your audience as friends who just got a job with a local business. You want to help them understand their new employer with the best information you can find.\r\n\r\nChoose one of the bullets in the Primary Research heading<\/a> as your topic: Interviews, Surveys, Observations, or Analysis.\r\n