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This study has helped me a lot gain the knowledge required pertaining to the learning objectives. Various author’s works have aided my research capabilities and I am contended that I can now undertake an independent research without much strain. Also, I can now make an appropriate interpretation of other people’s studies by being able to review them and assess whether they are credibly researched or not. This section of the paper explores different insights gained from this course sessions and how I intend to apply them in future.

One aspect learned from Sharpe’s ‘Wilderness adventure and the making of community’ is the significance of the structure when writing a research paper. This work employed a structure encompassing of the abstract, introduction, literature review, findings, and conclusions. I have learned the criticality in using these sections for ease of evaluation by the target audiences since every research paper targets a section of audiences who will not want to use much energy to read the paper. On the other hand, the structure must not be the same for all the research papers or other works. For instance, the structure of the paper, ‘The Resource-Based View of the Firm in Two Environments: The Hollywood Film Studios from 1936 to 1965’ by Danny Miller and Jamal Shamsie is based on the main and its initial part introduces the paper’s entire context using the abstract which acts as the overall summary of the entire paper. However, the abstract of the later work is not as comprehensive as the former one since there are numerous aspects building on the main objective in the Danny Miller and Jamal Shamsie’s work.

Secondly, the paper is structured with an introduction which serves as a provider of the background information pertaining to the delivery of communitas and how it is linked to leisure with an aim of providing social integration and serving social equality. The literature review is used by Sharpe to assess the possible literatures authored to provide information in the same context. One key aim of the author in this part is to compare the anticipated findings of this work with others which are believed to have undertaken a thorough preliminary research as well. The findings and the conclusions serve as the justification of findings of Sharpe’s work.

Also, I have learned the need to predict the information that one expects from a given research so as to evaluate them with the final findings of the research once the study is done. The data anticipated in Sharpe’s data collection method comprise of only the ones linked to the social context. Hence, data is used to test the existing theory about the provisions of communitas as an element of facilitating social integration. The data collection methods used by Sharpe are aligned to the objective of the work and the overall structure which he intended to use in writing the paper. For instance, using the trip leaders in an endeavor to research the possible implications of communitas is appropriate considering that leaders directly influence the social integration between their junior members. Hence, these insights are significant since it improves one’s mechanisms to support their research objective based on the possible available sources. For instance, using trip leaders was the most appropriate one for Sharpe despite the possibility of having other means.

I have also learned that keeping the research context with consistency is key and it leads to credible conclusion. For instance, using the information from various authorities while seeking to provide an ethnography account of how organizations and the trip leaders is effective considering that organizations are among the main social contexts which have huge impacts pertaining to Sharpe’s research objectives. These techniques in a research help one to focus of other researches when there is a need to undertake one and make critical observations on others studies. For example, had I been Sharpe, I would consider extending my study to reach to respondents in different categories of social settings as opposed to only organizations and the trip leaders. The responses from those other contexts would then be compared with those used by Sharpe to increase the credibility of the outcome.

The difference in research methods used by the two works evaluated shows the need to clarify one’s key goals and align them with the research for instance, the data collection methods used by Sharpe are aligned to the objective of the work and the overall structure which he intended to use in writing the paper. For instance, using the trip leaders in an endeavor to research the possible implications of communitas is appropriate considering that leaders directly influence the social integration between their junior members. Also, using the information from various authorities while seeking to provide an ethnography account of how organizations and the trip leaders is effective considering that organizations are among the main social contexts which have huge impacts pertaining to Sharpe’s research objectives. On the other hand, ‘The Resource-Based View of the Firm in Two Environments: The Hollywood Film Studios from 1936 to 1965’ by Danny Miller and Jamal Shamsie uses a technique which embraces the need to have direct data from the Hollywood Film industries in the U.S.