This video gives advice on how to formulate research questions. It provides an overview of the most important ingridients that a research question should have, gives examples of questions that don't quite work, provides advice on how to fix those questions, and concludes with a few caveats about particularly difficult research questions.
Intro: (0:00)
Basic vs Research Questions (0:35)
Assuring Relevance (1:16)
Making It Interesting (1:50)
Getting the Scope Right (2:32)
Creating Informed Questions (3:31)
Being Clear (4:40)
Being Original (5:41)
Making It Practical (7:16)
Segue: Sample Questions (8:33)
Example 1 (8:51)
Fixing Example 1 (10:11)
Example 2 (11:07)
Fixing Example 2 (11:50)
Example 3 (12:37)
Fixing Example 3 (13:18)
Example 4 (13:55)
Fixing Example 4 (14:56)
Concluding Advice (15:42)
Outro (18:25)
