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Developing Your Research Topic

Developing Your Research Topic. Where should the idea come from? The researcher ! . Developing Your Research Topic. What questions should you answer when approaching the development of a research topic?. Developing Your Research Topic.

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Developing Your Research Topic

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  1. Developing Your Research Topic

  2. Where should the idea come from? • The researcher!

  3. Developing Your Research Topic • What questions should you answer when approaching the development of a research topic?

  4. Developing Your Research Topic • 1) Is there a need to answer your question? Is it your passion to find the answer? • 2) What is its intellectual merit? Does it advance knowledge and understanding within its own field or across fields? • 3) What research already exists in the literature? How does your research differ or how is it innovative?

  5. Developing Your Research Topic • 4) What goals and objectives will you set? • 5) What are the activities or strategies that will help you achieve them? • 6) What are the anticipated outcomes?  • 7) Who will benefit from these outcomes and what will it contribute on a broader scale?

  6. Developing Your Research Topic • 4) Are you qualified to do the work proposed or should you seek collaborators? • 5) Is your topic well conceived and organized? • 6) Do you/the institution have the necessary resources to complete the research? • 9) How will you evaluate or measure the success of your research? • 10) Who will benefit from the outcomes of your research?

  7. Developing Your Research Topic • Next Steps: • Seek advice from peers and mentors • Start to consider sponsors. The areas that they fund may guide your concept • Work with your Dean and Chair • Come to OGSP early and often!!!

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