What is your research question? This is the question you will be exploring in your research. What do you want to know or discover about the topic you have chosen? As you go through the research process your research question may change, and that is fine
- Write at least five “development questions.” These are questions that underlie your research question (must be answered in order to answer your research question) or arise from your research question. They can be simple or complex questions.
o Development questions are questions that underlie or arise from your research question. That is, they are questions that you need to answer to answer your research question, or that grow out of your research question.
o Development questions can help think of different directions to take your paper. Every paper will be different, depending on your interests, your topic, and what you discover in your sources.
o Some questions are more theoretical and abstract (such as how or why questions), while others are more concrete and practical (such as questions about policy implications).
o Some people like to structure their paper around their development questions (and their answers). You may find that you don’t use all of them, but only some of them. One of them may even become your new research question.
