answer: #Person2# tells #Person1# they need to write an essay about ways of collecting data and to choose a method of data collection and carry a small scale study.
documents: #Person1#: Sorry, I'm a bit late. So have you worked out what to do with this homework?
  #Person2#: Not yet. I've just been here myself.
  #Person1#: Can you remind me just what the task is exactly?
  #Person2#: Well, there are 2, no, 3 parts. First, we've got to write an essay about ways of collecting data. Then...
  #Person1#: What's the title of the essay exactly?
  #Person2#: I've got it here. Discuss the 2 main methods of collecting data in social science research.
  #Person1#: And how many words do we have to write?
  #Person2#: 1500 words. Then for the second part of the homework, we have to choose one method of data collection and carry a small scale study.
  #Person1#: And then we have to write a report on the study?
  #Person2#: That's right. 3 to 4 thousand words.