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Tips for Focusing Your Research Question

You have decided on an interesting question to investigate. Now you can develop a guiding statement for your project. It needs to be well-defined and repeatable. It also needs to be testable; a statement that can be accepted or refuted with the evidence you are going to gather.

Guiding Statement:

Definition of Terms:

Variable to Test:

Variables to Control:

Investigation Time frame:

Data to Gather : (in the field and online)

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Authors: Michele Stafford-Levy, Shirley Davis, Albert Alvarez Ortiz, and Ellen Treadway.
School: New Mexico State University

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