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 and overall design and quality of the thesis, dissertation or research project. As students and researchers often spend six months to a year getting their research question right, this book should help set them on the right road.
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 remeber before you present your thesis.
