Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• demonstrate a basic knowledge of the debates about the evidence of reading, understanding distinctions between ‘hard’ or quantitative data and ‘soft’ or qualitative data

• understand an overview of some of the types of evidence scholars have used to construct the UK RED and their relative merits as primary sources

• identify different sources when looking at individual entries in the UK RED

• experiment with applying different methods of analysis to sets of records in the UK RED, including the application of quantitative and qualitative methods.