{"id":511,"date":"2021-07-05T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/?p=511"},"modified":"2022-01-23T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:42:26","slug":"a-strong-research-question-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/a-strong-research-question-question\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 521 A Strong Research Question, Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to pare down the decisions that go into drafting a strong research question. There are any number of steps before you start to work on your question.<\/p>\n<p>For example, deciding on what type of research you will be doing \u2013 quantitative or qualitative?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What interests you? The topic should be something that you are curious about, excited about, wondering about.<\/li>\n<li>What is its value<\/li>\n<li>The answer to the research question cannot be \u201cyes,\u201d otherwise the question is simplistic?<\/li>\n<li>The conclusion should be new information or updating old information or another take on a topic that has been researched.<\/li>\n<li>Are you being realistic or are you taking on more than you are able?<\/li>\n<li>Along with the question prior \u2013 do you have enough time to complete the research?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a problem to be solved, a noticeable change in X?<\/li>\n<li>What is the outcome you (or think) are interested in?<\/li>\n<li>Are you comfortable with the setting or what is the setting?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have satisfied some of those questions move on to forming the research question itself.<\/p>\n<p>The question should be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Must) be ethical and the ethics board manages that piece<\/li>\n<li>Focus \u2013 tighten up the question. Start broad and keeping paring down.<\/li>\n<li>Complex vs simplistic<\/li>\n<li>Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Are you able to analyze, evaluate it, explore it, assess it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did note many of the articles were not about forming a strong research question itself but forming a research question for a particular field: Art History, Clinical research for plastic surgery, for a multi centre database. However, there was a consistency around the type of questions or elements a strong research question has as listed above.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else notice that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1057\/9780230239517_2.pdf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements\">https:\/\/library.royalroads.ca\/writing-centre\/writing\/structure\/thesis-statements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71-GucBaM8U\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71-GucBaM8U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/methods-sagepub-com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/project-planner\/developing-a-researchable-question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to pare down the decisions that go into drafting a strong research question. There are any number of steps before you start to work on your question. For example, deciding on what type of research you will be doing \u2013 quantitative or qualitative? What interests you? The topic should be something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0213\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}