FORMULATING

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Practical Research I | SNHS Senior HS
 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• The questions asked in a research will determine the data that needs to
have answers and the date to be discussed in Chapter 4.
• It is crucial stage to attain your research objective
• This serves as a path that helps the researchers in the research writing
process.
 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• A research question is an answerable inquiry into a specific
concern or issue.
• It is the initial step in the research process.
• This serves as a path that helps the researchers in the research
writing process.
GUIDELINES:
 Specify your specific concern or issue
 Decide what you want to know about the specific concern or
issue
 Turn what you want to know into a question
 Ensure that the question is answerable
 Check to make sure that the question is not too broad or too
narrow
WHAT A RESEARCH QUESTION
SHOULD BE:
 CLEAR. Provides enough specifics that can easily be understood
 FOCUSED. It is narrow enough that it can be answered thoroughly in
the space the writing task allows
 CONCISE. It is expressed in the fewest possible words.
 COMPLEX. It is not answerable with a simple yes or no, but rather
requires synthesis and analysis of ideas and sources prior to
composition of an answer.
 ARGUABLE. Its potential answers are open to debatable rather than
accepted facts.
UNCLEAR: How should social networking sites address the
harm they cause?

CLEAR: What action should social networking sites like

Facebook take to protect users’ privacy?