{"id":367,"date":"2020-07-05T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/?p=367"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:03:02","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a quality research question is something I have little experience with, but I am excited to practice. Through my readings I have found a number of attributes that make for a good research question, but these are the two that I found most useful:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Focus on something I am are interested in.\n<ul>\n<li>Focusing my topic and objective can help direct my research methodology.<\/li>\n<li>Interest can help me persevere through the tough times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Find a balance between complexity and specificity.\n<ul>\n<li>Complexity gives me the room to explore a topic, with the potential to refine my question as I progress.<\/li>\n<li>Specificity, but not too much, can help narrow my research down to avoid wasted time. Defining specific variables early on will also help reduce scope creep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Helpful Resources<\/h4>\n<p>Scribbr. (2019, April 18). <i>10 Research Question Examples to Guide your Research Project<\/i>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/research-process\/research-question-examples\/\">https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/research-process\/research-question-examples\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southern State Community College. (n.d.). <i>LibGuides: Research Guide: 3. Research Question<\/i>. <a href=\"https:\/\/sscc.libguides.com\/c.php?g=18253&amp;p=102734\">https:\/\/sscc.libguides.com\/c.php?g=18253&amp;p=102734<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good research question gives you a clear path to take into the unknown. Or something like that. I don&#8217;t know. I just made that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,25,31],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-academic-writing","tag-reflection","tag-research","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0153\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}