{"id":39,"date":"2016-06-14T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/doingresearch\/chapter\/developing-research-question\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:50:51","slug":"question","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/doingresearch\/chapter\/question\/","title":{"raw":"Developing Your Research Question","rendered":"Developing Your Research Question"},"content":{"raw":"By now it should be clear that finding a research question is a process of exploration and refining: exploring a topic will lead to developing a question, and further refinement will help you to focus that question to something that is not too broad, and not too narrow.\r\n<h3><strong>ACTIVITY: Watch, think, and learn\r\n<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nTake a minute to watch this short video on how to develop a research topic. Think about the steps the student takes starting from a wide open topic, to something too narrow, and finally, to finding a balanced topic that is searchable.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q0B3Gjlu-1o[\/embed]\r\n<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h4>Steps for Developing a Research Question<\/h4>\r\nThe steps for developing a research question, listed below, can help you organize your thoughts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 1: <\/strong>Pick a topic (or consider the one assigned to you).\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 2: <\/strong>Write a narrower topic that is related to the first.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Do some background reading, using the Library's reference books. Do some initial research in a library database.\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 5: <\/strong>Readjust your topic if you get too few, or too many, search results.<strong>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Step 6: <\/strong>List some potential questions that could logically be asked in relation to the narrow topic.\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<h3><strong>\u00a0ACTIVITY: Summing up Module 1\r\n<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n[h5p id=\"14\"]\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">[h5p id=\"20\"]<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Well done! You've completed the text and activity portion of Part 1 Getting Started on your Research. 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