{"id":215,"date":"2018-07-04T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/?p=215"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:45:57","slug":"the-academic-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/the-academic-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The academic research question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am learning much about academic research these days. I understand one of the considerations I need to contemplate, when wanting to do research myself, is how to write a good research question. Since the research question will determine a successful research project, I need to consider several components. I came across the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching website which is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/cirt.gcu.edu\/research\/developmentresources\/tutorials\/question\">https:\/\/cirt.gcu.edu\/research\/developmentresources\/tutorials\/question<\/a> and I was able to find several interesting resources. The main page has a good summary of important details to consider when developing a research question,\u00a0two key points in particular stood out for me:<br \/>\n<strong>1. Does the research topic interest me?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf I want to get deeply involved in my research project I need to make sure the topic is of interest to me. A great motivator for finding answers is the passion to want to solve a problem.<br \/>\n<strong>2. Will my research question produce results?<\/strong><br \/>\nWill I be able to collect data that will help me to examine my research topic more deeply? I will need to be able to find evidence for both contradicting and supporting perspectives and in the end I need to be able to analyze the results. Therefore I will need to know in advance if my research is measurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am learning much about academic research these days. I understand one of the considerations I need to contemplate, when wanting to do research myself, is how to write a good research question. Since the research question will determine a successful research project, I need to consider several components. I came across the Center for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0053\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}