Analyzing Research Methods and Statistics

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Web Critique of a Website

The chosen website for criticizing the web is from AAMFT, n.d-American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. The site contains content such as family and marriage counseling, building career, finding the appropriate therapist, using webinars to enhance knowledge, annual events and conferences, professional advancement on both state and federal levels, all relevant information about the association and membership application. Some other relevant content include news, job connection, professional development, adoption, adult ADHD, children from same sex marriages and their same sex parents, and infertility issues.

Among the website strengths are detailed contact information and time of response with office times and availability, without any broken links, and the URL of the website that is straightforward and concise including the company's abbreviation. The limitations are a lot of information contained on the site's home page. Although a home page is expected to be easily navigatable and simple, this one has several texts clustered around each other, making the entire web page's impression chaotic. When a headline is clicked on, the new page opens on the same window tab, instead of opening on a new one since most people prefer new pages opening on new tabs to save the time they would need to wait for the webpage to finish loading.

There is a proper integration of information into the coursework because the entire course is research-based and the way the site's pages have been designed, they make the search for relevant information a lot easier for the web users to access appropriate and relevant information. Gaining adequate knowledge of internet researches, being able to differentiate between biased sources of information and credible ones, carrying out analysis on websites for varied aims and audiences, and learning how to get internet sources documented, are among the different ways this web critique aids our work on this course.

Part 2: The Experiential Exercise

I took part in conducting interviews on a subject that concerns materials that relate to the concept of the course. I interviewed one of my uncles who engage in smoking once in a while.

Interview on Addiction to Smoking

Date: May 25, 2016

Place: At my Uncle's Home

Summary of the Experience

Interviewing my uncle was a very pleasant experience, considering our closeness. The interview was executed smoothly as my uncle was quite open concerning his views. I asked him a couple of questions about his habit of smoking such as when he started smoking, why he started smoking, whether his friend's company was a determining factor or it was just out of curiosity, how smoking makes him feel, whether he has tried to quit smoking, the results of his attempts to quit smoking, and the main reason why he smokes. The realistic experience of interviewing someone was quite interesting and enlightening, owing to the fact that it was an entirely new experience for me, which has much relevance to the interviewing concepts of my coursework.

Conclusions