Dimensions
216 x 140 x 5mm
An informative guide to designing and formulating research questions.
Crucial starting points for research are often poorly conceived by students and researchers, resulting in problems as they work through the research, design and quality of the thesis, dissertation or research project. As students and researchers often spend six months to a year in getting the research question right, this book will help set them on the right road.
Contents:
- The nature of questions
- How questions emerge from topics areas or "problems"
- Formulating research questions
- Distinguishing main from subsidiary questions
- How research questions determine the methodology of a thesis
- How research questions determine the structure of a thesis
- Other ways of starting research: hypotheses, problems
- Referring back to questions in your work
- A checklist of things to remember before you present your thesis
