2. All research questions should be:
Focused on a single problem or issue
Researchable using primary and/or secondary sources
Feasible to answer within the timeframe and practical constraints
Specific enough to answer thoroughly
Complex enough to develop the answer over the space of a paper
or thesis
Relevant to your field of study and/or society more broadly

3. How to write a
research question
Choose your topic
Do some preliminary reading about
the current state of the field
Narrow your focus to a specific niche
Identify the research problem that
you will address

4. Using your research problem to
develop your research question

6. Focused and Researchable

7. Feasible and Specific

8. Complex and Arguable

9. Relevant and Original

10. How the topic, problem, research question, and
aim of the paper are interrelated

11. Deriving a research question from a topic

12. Dos and Don'ts