{"id":221,"date":"2019-07-06T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T04:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-07-06T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T04:22:12","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/ae8c4cd5117c3aea2a7f1e4cd71466b5\/tenor.gif?itemid=5036980\" alt=\"Ponder Pondering GIF - Ponder Pondering Hmm GIFs\" width=\"317\" height=\"209\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 317px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 317\/209;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From reviewing the readings and some of the videos\/links posted on LRNT522, what I believe makes a good research question is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specificity &#8211; the question cannot be vague or open for interpretation.<\/li>\n<li>Clear and concise &#8211; this avoids ambiguity and allows gathering data to be more fluid.<\/li>\n<li>It has a studiable answer &#8211; it should be worthy of investigating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would like to say that the question should be as interesting\/captivating as possible, however, this is subjective to the topic at hand.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Image: Ducyduce. (2016, February 07). Ponder Pondering GIF &#8211; Ponder Pondering Hmm &#8211; Discover &amp; Share GIFs. Retrieved from https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/ponder-pondering-hmm-tapping-wondering-gif-5036980<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From reviewing the readings and some of the videos\/links posted on LRNT522, what I believe makes a good research question is: Specificity &#8211; the question cannot be vague or open for interpretation. Clear and concise &#8211; this avoids ambiguity and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0109\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}