Creating A Research Question Or Title

• This is actually very difficult to do well

• First you need to decide on what you are going to assess/ analysis

• There are three main approaches

• Do some testing\ analysis to support a theory
  • Very quick to complete literature review
  • Often testing is done in a real world context (workplace)

• Do some testing\ analysis to support a position (debate)
  • Quick to complete literature review
  • Can be difficult to understand the finer details of the debate
  • It may be difficult to test the debate within a real world context (workplace)

• Find a research gap and do some testing\ analysis
  • Time consuming as it demands an understanding of the subject area
  • You need to find a gap first
  • Completing a literature review can be time consuming and difficult
  • You may need to create theoretical standpoint before testing

• Find twenty journal articles about the topic you are going to investigate
  • What do the titles have in common
    • Keywords
      • investigate, computation, compare
    • Patterns
      • Predicting …???… through …???… analysis of ….????….

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