OUTLINE

• DEFINITION
• IMPORTANCE
• CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• EXAMPLES
WHAT IS A RESEARCH QUESTION?

•A QUESTION WHICH THE RESEARCH SETS OUTS TO

ANSWER.
IMPORTANCE OF A RESEARCH QUESTION

•HELP REFINE BROAD TOPICS INTO RESEARCHABLE

VARIABLES.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
•RELEVANT
•INTERESTING
•FOCUSED AND SPECIFIC
•RESEARCHABLE
EXAMPLE:
Research
Broad Topics Narrowed Topics Focused Topics
Question
Is cigarette smoking
Women and Womens smokers and
Women’s Health associated with breast
Cancer Breast Cancer
cancer risk?
How does violence in
Computer games Computer games
Computer Games computer games affect
violence violence and children
children?
What role, if any, does peer
Teenagers and Teen peer pressure
Eating Disorder pressure play in the
eating disorder and Bulimia
development of bulimia?
THAT’S END MY REPORT

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_MARK JASON SERNA