Recommendations (post 6)

Make recommendations or suggestions for further research and social change.

Further Research

1) What new research questions need to be investigated? What areas do you and other researchers need to study more in-depth? What follow-up projects should be conducted? What follow-up surveys need to be conducted? Are there other populations that should be surveyed?

Social Change

2) Based on what you have learned, how should things change? Make any and all suggestions for change--at home, at school, among teenagers, among parents and teachers--that you think your research supports.

Writing

The writing in this post may be less formal and academic than the writing in previous posts. You are writing about what you think, believe, and suggest, so you may use the personal pronoun "I."

Research Question (post 2)

Your investigation topic broadly states your area of interest; it is the point of entry into your project. Your research question (or questions) should be more clearly defined than your general topic; it (or they) will guide your investigation from this point forward. A clearly defined research question is

• deeply interesting to you
• neither too broad nor too narrow
• researchable

*In this post, you should simply state your research question or questions.

Writing

The writing in a research question should be academic and formal. No personal pronouns!

For examples of research questions, please see: http://thatshowitalk.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-research-questions.html.

For more information about developing research questions, please see:
http://www.esc.edu/ESConline/Across_ESC/WritersComplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7?OpenDocument.