Goal:

The purpose of this assignment is to help you further refine your research topic. All careers and disciplines deal with a variety of problems, issues and projects that require research to develop solutions. To do good research, you must have a clear understanding of what issues are important and which questions relate to the topic you wish to explore.

This assignment will lead you through the process of mentally and visually narrowing and/or restricting your topic ideas that you developed. Formulating research questions about your topic will naturally assist you in narrowing or focusing the direction of your research and consequently develop your research objectives.

Select Your Topic:

Before you start your research, you need to have at least some idea of what you want to do. Select a topic of your interest based on what you studied in chapter 2.

Formulate Your Research Questions

• Develop research questions that help you focus on the main questions you wish to investigate related to your topic.
• A well-developed research question will help you formulate a working thesis statement that succinctly summarizes your main idea, position, and solution to your topic.

Write your Research aims and set of Objectives

• A research aim is a brief statement of the purpose of the research project.
• It is often written as a sentence stating what you intend to achieve through your research.

Directions:

Using the question words of WHAT, WHY or HOW, develop at least three different questions that you would like to find answers to regarding your topic.

Use your research questions to generate more detailed investigative questions and use it as a base from which to write a set of research objectives.

Note: Please don't choose DNA Topic.