{"id":224,"date":"2019-07-07T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/?p=224"},"modified":"2019-09-07T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T05:26:27","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about what makes a good research question, there are two things that immediately pop into my mind:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Clear<\/li>\n<li>Concise<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A clear question that identifies what is the objective of the research being done. A concise question that provides the relevant information needed to ensure the research question is being appropriately answered.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to further investigate, as I have always somewhat struggled when it came to research. I would start with what I thought was a clear path and I would end up somewhere completely different taking turns left and right.<\/p>\n<p>When I looked at the Writing Centre there is an outline for the basis of a research question, &#8220;a research question should: be clear and specific; state the focus of investigation in the research; not be answerable with a\u00a0yes\/no response&#8221; (&#8220;Thesis statements\/Research questions\/Problem statements | RRU Library&#8221;, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Comparing what I had originally thought versus the information I was able to pull up, leaves the question itself. To expand on my original thought, I would include that a research question should include: who, what, where, why, and\/or how. This ensures that the question would not be answerable with a simple yes or no.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Thesis statements\/Research questions\/Problem statements | RRU Library. (2019). Retrieved from https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about what makes a good research question, there are two things that immediately pop into my mind: Clear Concise A clear question that identifies what is the objective of the research being done. A concise question that provides the relevant information needed to ensure the research question is being appropriately answered. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0112\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}