Action plan.

For my investigation all of the data that is requires is pre-existing and therefore isn't susceptible to many of the ethical and validity issues of an investigation that requires me to physically record my data using participants. This therefore means my data won't be affected by the "observers paradox" making the idea redundant for my investigation.
However there are certain steps I can take to ensure my data is ethically sourced and also representative.
As the bulk of my data will be compromised of transcripts of speeches that I will watch on the internet it will be vital to include all my sources in a bibliography as to not take credit for anyone's work. I will also have to name all theories and the theorists who developed them when using them for analytical purposes. For example I plan to read the book "While black" which explores Barrack Obama, language, and race in the U.S, which I am hoping will provide insight into the topic I am investigating. When using ideas from this book I will have to state the ideas origins as well as the theorist behind it.
While trying to remain representative I will have to watch many speeches and choose one that is typical of the speaker in question. If I chose for example a speech by martin Luther king that didn't contain key characteristics of one of his speeches, this could be considered an untrue representation and there for make the data either invalid or unreliable.

My investigation requires the use of a methodology that isn't like any in the "doing the investigation" book. It will require analysing transcripts of speeches and then using the knowledge gathered by the analysations to come to a conclusion on why investigation. The analysations them selves will include both qualitative and quantitative data as i feel combining the two give a better data yield. In regards to secondary research I have already aqauired a book focusing on my investigation which will no doubt bring up ideas that I my self can then develop.