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Writing Effective Research Questions
In this lesson, you will learn how to write and finalize your research question/s. This lesson will walk you through the process of creating a research question and how to use that research question to find experts and the sources that they author or are featured in. In other words, you can start looking for specific source information once you have your research question. This helps you conduct inquiry based research instead of what you may be used to which is finding a few sources to support a thesis. While you may eventually need a couple more sources once you have a thesis, starting with a question means that you are trying to understand the conversation, not just one side.
You will use this question to focus the rest of your research project.
Time to Finalize your Research Question!
- 7.1: The Reading Writing Research Questions
- To read more about why research questions are important and how they differ from starting with a thesis
- 7.2: The Classroom Lecture and Activity
- Learn how to create a research question.
- 7.3: The Assignment for this LO goes here
- Write out your research question and submit for assessment.
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