Develop a Research Question

What is a Research Question?

As you learn about your topic, you will begin to learn more details and can describe the background of your topic. Eventually, you need to develop a research question: what do you want to find out? This question should guide all of your research from that point on.

Your research question should guide you to analyze events and changes, and will likely fall into one of the following categories:

1. Cause and effect: Why did something happen? What led to a change, a new technology, an event, a decision? What impact did this change have?
2. Point of view: Different perspectives, views and feelings as others about an event. What were people thinking? How was this different from other perspectives?
3. Compare and contrast: How were these events, ideas or decisions similar or different to others events, periods of time or groups of people?
4. Significance: Why was this event, person or change important? What does this event, person or change reveal about a nation, culture, group or people or period of time?

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