{"id":226,"date":"2022-03-10T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=226"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:13:33","slug":"developing-a-research-question","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/chapter\/developing-a-research-question\/","title":{"raw":"Influence of a Research Question","rendered":"Influence of a Research Question"},"content":{"raw":"Whether you\u2019re designing research questions for academic purposes, for work, or for a passion project, the process of creating and developing a research question asks you to figure out:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[h5p id=\"34\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor academic purposes, you may have to develop research questions to carry out both large and small assignments. A smaller assignment may ask you to do research for a class discussion or to write a blog post for a class; larger assignments may invite you to conduct research and then present it in a lab report, infographic, research paper, or article.\r\n\r\nFor large projects, the research question (or questions) you develop will define or at least heavily influence:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/03\/research-questions.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/03\/research-questions.png\" alt=\"Your topic (research questions effectively narrow the topic you\u2019ve first chosen or been assigned by your instructor). What, if any, hypotheses you test. Which information sources are relevant to your project. Which research methods are appropriate. What claims you can make or conclusions you can come to as a result of your research.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a>\r\n<h1>Adaptations<\/h1>\r\nThis section has been adapted from <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\/chapter\/influence-of-research-question\/\">Influence of a Research Question<\/a> in <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Choosing &amp; Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research<\/a> by Teaching &amp; Learning, Ohio State University Libraries, licensed under a <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/a>, except where otherwise noted.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>Whether you\u2019re designing research questions for academic purposes, for work, or for a passion project, the process of creating and developing a research question asks you to figure out:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"h5p-34\">\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-34\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"34\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Influence of a Research Question\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For academic purposes, you may have to develop research questions to carry out both large and small assignments. A smaller assignment may ask you to do research for a class discussion or to write a blog post for a class; larger assignments may invite you to conduct research and then present it in a lab report, infographic, research paper, or article.<\/p>\n<p>For large projects, the research question (or questions) you develop will define or at least heavily influence:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/03\/research-questions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1608\/2022\/03\/research-questions.png\" alt=\"Your topic (research questions effectively narrow the topic you\u2019ve first chosen or been assigned by your instructor). What, if any, hypotheses you test. Which information sources are relevant to your project. Which research methods are appropriate. What claims you can make or conclusions you can come to as a result of your research.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Adaptations<\/h1>\n<p>This section has been adapted from <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\/chapter\/influence-of-research-question\/\">Influence of a Research Question<\/a> in <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">Choosing &amp; Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research<\/a> by Teaching &amp; Learning, Ohio State University Libraries, licensed under a <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/a>, except where otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attributions clear\" prefix:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" prefix:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\"><h2>Media Attributions<\/h2><ul><li about=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\/chapter\/influence-of-research-question\/\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.pressbooks.pub\/choosingsources\/chapter\/influence-of-research-question\/\" property=\"dc:title\">research questions<\/a>  &copy;  <a rel=\"dc:creator\" href=\"https:\/\/library.osu.edu\/\" property=\"cc:attributionName\">Ohio State University Libraries<\/a>  adapted by  Angie Goertz  is licensed under a  <a rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY (Attribution)<\/a> license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1558,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-226","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":71,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/226\/revisions\/1985"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/71"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/226\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}