{"id":316,"date":"2017-07-08T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/?p=316"},"modified":"2017-07-08T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T20:42:36","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research papers cannot come together and head in the right direction without a good question and that\u2019s why it is important to have a good and solid research question. Based on my readings and research, I believe the followings are key points of having a good research question:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Background research \u2013 it is important to understand the topic of the research first to be able to create a good research question.<\/li>\n<li>Relevant\u2013 a research question should be appropriate and relevant to you and other people involved with the research.<\/li>\n<li>Simple and clear \u2013a research question should be clear and simple to understand and also specific to the topic.<\/li>\n<li>Not too narrow or too broad \u2013 in order to have a good research question, you should make sure that the question is not too narrow, meaning that it can be answered in a couple of sentences. It also should not be too broad, meaning that to answer the question you\u2019d have to write a book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>References<\/h1>\n<p>Steely Library NKU. (2014). <em>Developing a Research Question<\/em>. Retrieved from Youtube : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWLYCYeCFak<\/p>\n<p><em>Thesis statements\/Research questions<\/em>. (2017). Retrieved from Royal Roads University : http:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research papers cannot come together and head in the right direction without a good question and that\u2019s why it is important to have a good and solid research question. Based on my readings and research, I believe the followings are&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-lrnt-522","tag-malat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}