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Last updated: 4th July 2008

Project Guidance for Students: Identifying the Research Question

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Information to help you narrow your research topic from a broad interest to a well structured, researchable question.
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  • Identifying a good research question (http://www.dissertationsuccess.com/resquest/resquest.htm)
    This site offers tips on finding a good question. Great if you are struggling to ‘word’ your question.
  • Developing a research question (http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/menus.htm)
    This site could make things clearer if you’re not sure how to formulate your research question. Advice is offered not only on creating a question but making sure you can answer it.
  • Formulating the research question (http://www.socscidiss.bham.ac.uk/s7.html)
    Some guidelines as to what a ‘good question’ should be and why. Although written for social science courses, the information is relevant to research in all subject areas.

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