October 25, 2013
To:
Fr:
Re: Approval of Primary Research
My research topic is the effect of the immigration from China to U.S. on the economy and my hypothesis is the immigration from China will improve the U.S. economy from 2008 to 2012. To make my research paper become more effective and reliable, a qualitative primary research should be proposed in my study. There are some ideas that I could do for my study. For example, I can do observation; I can observe the consumption of Chinese people in a specific Chinese store. By observing it, I can discover the size of their consumption and then compare to the secondary research, see how it affects the specific market like import and export market. I am planning to sit there with my friends and start to obverse them and take note on their action. However, I need to get the permission of the manager in the Chinese store first and then start my primary research. This study is biased because I just sit there and obverse immigrant from other countries. To avoid it, I will try to neglect the immigrants from other countries and also when I compare my observation to the import and export market, I may need to analyse it carefully and interpret it clearly. I am expecting my observation will support my hypothesis which is Chinese immigrant improve U.S. economy from 2008 and 2012.
Moreover, I also can do interview as my primary research. To study my research topic, I will use face-to-face interview with my economic instructor, Samuel Le, and I will begin with a question such as the following: “Do you agree or disagree the Chinese immigration to U.S. improve the U.S. economy?” This interview should be recorded and the length of the interview will be 20 minutes. In conjunction with the interview, I will take note on the information which is provided from my economic teacher. In addition, I also like to ask him how to study