{"id":181,"date":"2018-07-06T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/?p=181"},"modified":"2018-07-08T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T03:52:34","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at research questions there are many things that are necessary to determine. This include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are you hoping to answer (Do you have a question or are you hoping to find one with the research)?\n<ul>\n<li>This leads to the type of research that will be looked at (primary or secondary)<\/li>\n<li>You will also use this question to decide the research method to be used (Qualitative, quantitative or mixed)<\/li>\n<li>These second two questions cannot be answered without examining the first, but you may not have a conclusive answer to the first until after completing the latter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What is the purpose of finding this research question\n<ul>\n<li>This is the who is going to care question. You can do research and write about anything but without looking at the purpose it won\u2019t have a cohesive plan to put it all together.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes the answer of \u201cwho cares\u201d can be answered with \u201cthe researcher\u201d but knowing this in advance can save a lot of wasted time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a good video I&#8217;ve found online that also explores creating a research question:<br \/>\n<span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>N. (2014, July 28). Developing a Research Question. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWLYCYeCFak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at research questions there are many things that are necessary to determine. This include but are not limited to: What are you hoping to answer (Do you have a question or are you hoping to find one with&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,18,33,29,40],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-digital","tag-education","tag-malat","tag-personal-reflection","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}