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Creating
a Research Question ??
Once
you've chosen a topic, turn it into a question so that your research
will be a genuine inquiry. This question should not be one to
which the answer is obvious. For example, the following question
can be answered without doing research:
"Is smoking dangerous to your health?"
A better question:
Are smoking bans justified?
The
following are examples of topics that have been converted into
research questions:
Topic:
Home Schooling
Question:
Is home
schooling an effective alternative to conventional schooling?
Topic: American
Revolutionary War
Question: Why
did the Americans, and not the British, win the Revolutionary
War?
Topic:
College
Admissions
Quesion:
Should the SATs no longer be a factor in college admissions?
Topic:
Humor in Literature
Question:
In what ways
does Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County" embody the comic traditions of southwestern humor?
