Learning outcome

• Differentiate different types of research questions and corresponding methods (analysis learning category)

In this assignment, your job is to start to muddle through crafting good researchable research questions and to start thinking through the direct connections between research questions and the methods or methodological frameworks that can generate data that answers those questions.

Your task

Consider your working research question–from the start of your prospectus and dissertation work or from another project. You want to determine what type of question you’re asking. Are you asking a who, what, when, where, why, or how question? Is it descriptive, relational, causal, interpretative, comparative, explanatory, etc?

You may also have a big question and/or a number of smaller questions.

Your task here is to take the working definition of empirical research and your beginning knowledge or research and methods and write/revise your research question.

We will workshop these questions in class.

Think through what type of methods may answer your question. I recognize the first part of this is due early in the term, but give it your best shot.

Due Date

5-27-25 and you will likely revise this question for it to appear in the final create assignment