OUGD405 - Studio Session

Write the 10 most interesting facts about your topic :

• USA is the highest buyer of coffee
• Finland is the largest consumer of coffee
• 40 coffee beans = one shot
• Caffeine was developed by coffee plants to stop insects feeding off them
• The world consumes 300 tons of coffee per day = 1 cup for each man, woman and child
• Coffee will only grow between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn - Coffee Belt
• USA has one state in the coffee belt (Hawaii) so it does not have to import all of their coffee
• Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland and Norway import 100% of their coffee
• People have developed coffee art

We had to identify which of our interesting points were facts and which were opinions.

• My list is made up entirely of facts.

As a group, we identified the methods which we used to collect our information :

• Reading Books
• Watching Videos
• Talking to people
• Looking at images
• Searching the internet.
• Emailed the subject

What source material did we gather from this research?

• Images of cheese
• Images of coffee advertising
• Images of Vivienne Westwood
• Drawings of dresses
• Videos about coffee

As an entire group -

• Quotes
• Dates
• Printed images
• Scanned images
• Blogged images
• Interviews
• Articles
• Photocopies
• Practical Experiments
• Practical Observations
• Screen Shots
• Observational Notes
• Written quotes
• Clips
• Emails
• Audio

Things that affect the way we research :

• Reliability of sources
• Geographical Restraints
• Legal Restraints
• Limited Time
• Too much time
• Insufficient funds/Costs
• Dead People/Past Events
• Lack of motivation
• Lack of interest
• Outside limitations
• Co-operation
• Lack of prior knowledge

How to address these limitations: 

• Budgeting
• Find out people who have been there
• Send emails to people who have been there
• Appropriate travel
• Google maps - visual source
• Time management
• Priorities
• Schedule
• Planning
• Confidence