{"id":235,"date":"2023-06-30T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/?p=235"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:24:08","slug":"what-makes-a-good-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/what-makes-a-good-research-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Research Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many considerations when creating a good, focused research question where the answer needs to be articulated in depth (Silverman, 2001). A good research question should be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Investigable <\/strong>&#8211; Research scientifically to provide empirical evidence (Slaven-Baden, 2012).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Contributable <\/strong>&#8211; Produce knowledge that has the capacity to make a notable theoretical contribution (Alvesson &amp; Sandberg, 2013).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As this blog was instructed to point out only one or two key things, did anyone find points that they consider to be more important than investigation and contribution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alvesson, M. &amp; Sandberg, J. (2012). <em>Constructing research questions: doing interesting<\/em> <em>research. <\/em>Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Savin-Baden, M. &amp; Major, C. (2012). <em>Qualitative research: the essential guide to theory and<\/em> <em>practice<\/em>. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silverman, D. (2001). <em>Interpreting qualitative data, 2nd ed<\/em>. London: Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many considerations when creating a good, focused research question where the answer needs to be articulated in depth (Silverman, 2001). A good research question should be: As this blog was instructed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0286\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}