{"id":287,"date":"2021-07-04T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/?p=287"},"modified":"2021-09-12T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:27:42","slug":"activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/activity-3-what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 522 \u2502Activity 3: What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Through various readings and videos I&#8217;ve started to shape my ideas in what makes a good research question. A good research question should be:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Specific<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Controlling the scope of your research is critical as it can easily get overwhelming trying to incorporate all the variables and details on a research subject. Restraining from expanding too far outside your subject area and maintaining focus will help create a clear hypothesis and conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Flexible, especially in the early stages<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">It is very likely the question you start with will shift as your begin to conduct more research. You may find there is an abundance of information that covers your idea already or in contrast that your particular question hasn&#8217;t been explored much. The more exposure to information will help steer and narrow your question to fit your research.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Relevant and Intriguing<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Using &#8220;relevant or intriguing&#8221; I&#8217;m trying to describe the research questions addresses something that is cared about or could change future understanding in that research area. It shouldn&#8217;t be an &#8220;open-and-shut&#8221; case and needs a level of complexity to allow for discussion that may spawn further research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through various readings and videos I&#8217;ve started to shape my ideas in what makes a good research question. A good research question should be: Specific Controlling the scope of your research is critical as it can easily get overwhelming trying to incorporate all the variables and details on a research subject. Restraining from expanding too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0226\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}