As we mentioned earlier, research questions—specific questions, arguments, or hypotheses that require sources to help answer—drive research. These are more complex than factual questions with a single answer. Research questions require you to investigate your ideas and to create a potential viewpoint after synthesizing information from various sources. In other words, you become a participant and a creator, not just a consumer.
Writing strong research questions, even with a focused topic, can be difficult. You may find research questions need revision along the way, just like with focusing the topic. Let’s look at some characteristics of research questions and how can we revise some examples to include them.
