{"id":486,"date":"2017-07-04T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/?p=486"},"modified":"2017-07-04T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:10:04","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trickiest parts of developing a research question is knowing where to start. From my readings, the general process is to focus your topic on a specific issue of interest. In pursuit of that lofty goal:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find a topic that can readily be researched.<\/li>\n<li>List all the questions you\u2019d like answered about the topic.<\/li>\n<li>Pick the issue that resonates with you, that can provide ample research, and that has a reasonable scope.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A key point in developing my research question regards operationalizing\u00a0<span class='et-tooltip'><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span><span class='et-tooltip-box'>referring to the actions, processes, or operations used to measure or identify variables <span class='et-tooltip-arrow'><\/span><\/span><\/span>. That is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#dfd6d3;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#f9f0ed;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">\u00a0Write the question to include identifying the association or relationship between or among the variables I want to understand.\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\n<h1>References<\/h1>\n<p>Evaluate Your Own Research Question | Online Writing Center | SUNY Empire State College. (n.d.). Retrieved July 4, 2017, from https:\/\/www.esc.edu\/online-writing-center\/exercise-room\/evaluate-your-own-research-question\/<\/p>\n<p>Writing Research Questions. (2009, July 20). Retrieved July 4, 2017, from https:\/\/researchrundowns.com\/intro\/writing-research-questions\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trickiest parts of developing a research question is knowing where to start. From my readings, the general process is to focus your topic on a specific issue of interest. In pursuit of that lofty goal: Find a topic that can readily be researched. List all the questions you\u2019d like answered about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-operationalizing","tag-research-question","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}