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Stage 2: Research Project

__Week 1__ In the first week of the research project as a class we were informed on what the basic idea for research project is.We were informed of the task that will be required for us to pass to complete this subject for SACE. Throughout the semmester we will be researching a chosen topic that will be put forward for moderating. Our first task of course was to select a topic, we worked through a seclection process until we had a topic that can be researched. We had to make sure our topic had a relevent question to help us research. My topic is about the National Basketball Association (NBA) __Week 2__ This week we will be focusing on the production of our research proposal. I was given an outline to help produce this piece of work.

This is an outline of what will have to be included in the proposal, this was noted by my subject teacher.

1)Subject title-topic 2) Research processes /method 3) Ethics + Safety
 * reason for choice
 * primary-
 * seconday-

__9/02/2012__ We watched a Research Ethics video, some notes were taken form this video

__Defined role__ __Causes of unethical conduct__ __4 principles of research ethics__ __Tips__ under pressure deadlines) __4 principles of research ethics__ __Tips__
 * Research is a social practice
 * Researchers have a defined role
 * to achieve goals of research (persue knowledge)
 * persue benifits, avoid harms
 * ignorance
 * persue incentives (under pressure deadlines)
 * lack of ethical culture- need reflection on consequences
 * Integrity
 * produce benifits not harm
 * respect for persons
 * justice
 * Plagarism- stealing information not ackowledging sources
 * Don't make up data
 * privacy of personal infromation
 * informed consent- permission letter
 * respect right to withdraw informed consent
 * lack of ethical culture- need reflection on consequences
 * Integrity
 * produce benifits not har
 * respect for persons
 * justice
 * Plagarism- stealing information not ackowledging sources
 * Don't make up data
 * privacy of personal infromation
 * informed consent- permission letter

__Week 3__ This week I am still working on my research proposal, I am in the middle of the proposal trying to create a resonable outcome for the overall project. __Week 4__ I have created my outcome for my research proposal and am in the midldle of conlcuding the propasal. I aim to make a news report about the NBA lockout.

__Week 5__ I have handed the research proposal up to my subject teacher, and I believe that i am able to move onto the first stages of recovering information. I am pleased with my progress and cant wait to start.

\[|This is a link that leads to a question that had been asked on yahoo answers, it is a good start to finding out the intitial ideas for my research]: This site is useful if I ever have to get a quick recap on what i am researching.

I have annotated this text with specific info that are vital to my research.

This week we have to sit down with our teacher and have a discussion on what we are researching. So I will focus on how I will be answering the questions that will be asked during the discussion.

[|This is a link that directs you to a sports blog about an offer made by officials, but was refused by players.]

I read through the above link, and read some of th comments that were listed bellow. Now i know that this isnt entirely relavent to what I am researching, but i noted how disapointed spectators like me were when they heard of the lockout itself.

[|Link to twitter comments form the players of thNBA]