{"id":190,"date":"2019-07-13T19:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/?p=190"},"modified":"2019-07-13T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:05:49","slug":"research-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/research-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good research question could be seen as the narrowing scope of a magnifying glass:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 1rem\">Find a clear focal point within a larger topic. An ideal question converges the ambiguity of a broad topic down to a scope that is focused and arguable.<\/li>\n<li>Seek to clarify a complex issue\u2014with no obvious answer\u2014through the lens of a timely and relevant question. Deeper understanding can be found by spending time exploring a topic of interest, and looking for the edge cases that are not clearly defined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Mason University Writing Center (2018). How to Write a Research Question. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/writingcenter.gmu.edu\/guides\/how-to-write-a-research-question\">https:\/\/writingcenter.gmu.edu\/guides\/how-to-write-a-research-question<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Royal Roads University (n.d.) Identifying your research question. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/infoquest-tutorials\/how-start\/identifying-your-research-question\">https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/infoquest-tutorials\/how-start\/identifying-your-research-question<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good research question could be seen as the narrowing scope of a magnifying glass: Find a clear focal point within a larger topic. An ideal question converges the ambiguity of a broad topic down to a scope that is focused and arguable. Seek to clarify a complex issue\u2014with no obvious answer\u2014through the lens of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/research-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What makes a good research question?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0128\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}