{"id":255,"date":"2022-07-01T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/?p=255"},"modified":"2022-09-18T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:14:33","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good research question?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I entered LRNT 522 Introduction to Research: Critical Reading and Writing, I was asked to describe &#8220;What makes a good research question&#8221;. I have concluded the following through the course readings, videos, and online research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Lumen Learning Center believes that a research question should be &#8220;a good research question is one that can be answered using information that already exists or that can be collected&#8221; (2018). We need to have the data to help us answer the question.<\/li><li>Monash University states, that a research question should be &#8220;Clear and focused&#8221; (n.d.). We don&#8217;t want our question to be so broad because we will also come to a broad conclusion.<\/li><li>As the George University writing center wrote, &#8220;complex: it is not answerable with a simple \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno,\u201d but rather requires synthesis and analysis of ideas and sources prior to composition of an answer&#8221; (n.d.). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Through this research process, I have discovered that many resources point to the same common themes. I now believe I know how to make a good research question. I look forward to creating my first research question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monash University. (n.d.).\u00a0<em>Developing research questions.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/rlo\/research-writing-assignments\/understanding-the-assignment\/developing-research-questions\">https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/rlo\/research-writing-assignments\/understanding-the-assignment\/developing-research-questions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Mason University. (n.d.). <em>How to Write a Research Question.<\/em> <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\n\n\n<p>The Lumen learning center. (2018). The qualities of a Good Research Question [Blog post]. https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp2kscopexmaster\/chapter\/the-qualities-of-a-good-research-questio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I entered LRNT 522 Introduction to Research: Critical Reading and Writing, I was asked to describe &#8220;What makes a good research question&#8221;. I have concluded the following through the course readings, videos, and online research. The Lumen Learning Center believes that a research question should be &#8220;a good research question is one that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}