{"id":196,"date":"2019-07-11T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-08-15T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T01:29:39","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a start&#8230; here are two things that I believe make a good research question:<\/p>\n<p>1) a clearly identified &#8220;problem&#8221; or issue to address that the researcher is very interested in or passionate about<\/p>\n<p>2) includes clearly defined key concepts &#8211; a conceptual framework based in chosen theoretical framework<\/p>\n<p>Using a theoretical framework for my research and academic writing is a new and exciting challenge for me. I really appreciated the video\/slide overview presented by Dr. Francois Desjardins, to help me to better understand how my choice of a theoretical framework will help me to articulate a good research question in our various MALAT academic endeavours.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"676\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcnufgQzMjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found the RRU Writing Centre&#8217;s guide to &#8220;How to write a research question&#8221; to be very useful.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/writingcenter.gmu.edu\/guides\/how-to-write-a-research-question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a start&#8230; here are two things that I believe make a good research question: 1) a clearly identified &#8220;problem&#8221; or issue to address that the researcher is very interested in or passionate about 2) includes clearly defined key concepts&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt521","category-lrnt522","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}