question
(noun)
A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
Examples of question in the following topics:
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Ending Punctuation
- The question mark (?)
- Indirect questions are designed to ask for information without actually asking a question.
- (indirect question)
- Question marks come at the end of sentences that make a request or ask a direct question.
- (declarative sentence with a direct question)
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Turning Your Topic Into a Question
- A problem statement needs a question to solve, so part of narrowing your topic is transforming it from a statement into a specific question.
- Your question is also not a fully articulated problem statement.
- One of those can become your question.
- The question, "How does Hamlet lay out criteria for ‘successful' revenge?
- Brainstorming can be a good way to help develop a research question
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Generating Further Questions
- Questions: What is the utopian vision of the novel?
- Questions: What is the utopian vision of the novel?
- A thesis statement implicitly answers a multitude of unasked questions.
- In the questions above, the most difficult question, and the one that might be most difficult to answer, is the theoretical question: "Why is the utopian imagination's vision of difference generally important?"
- Which questions, if left unaddressed, would damage your credibility?
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Responding to Others in Class Discussions
- In classroom discussions, students can respond to others, answer each other's questions, and present new questions or thoughts based on others responses.
- Classroom conversation allows the expression of students' opinions, thoughts, and questions about the subject being discussed.
- Students can respond to others, answer each other's questions, and present new questions or thoughts based on others' responses.
- For students, one important component of classroom discussion is responding to others, answering each other's questions, and presenting new questions or thoughts based on others responses.
- This is as important as responding directly to the teacher, or to questions posed by the teacher. Â
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Turning Your Question Into a Claim
- A "working hypothesis" is a statement of what you think the answer to your question is.
- " The next step is to develop a working hypothesis as a potential answer to that question.
- You've chosen a topic, and you've turned it into a question.
- The next step is to start answering your question.
- If this is unintentional, you need to refocus on the original question and hypothesis.
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Raising the Stakes of Your Argument
- Learn how to make your argument more meaningful by connecting it to larger social, philosophical, or political questions.
- Pathos: If you still question the results of these trials, take a moment for this thought experiment.
- How does the "larger question" connect to your specific project?
- In the arts, there are many fields of criticism dedicated to studying objects in terms of these questions.
- However, the way you choose to link your argument to larger questions must make sense.
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Organizing Your Research Plan
- Develop specific questions that can be answered through your research process, but be careful not to choose a focus that is overly narrow.
- Then, in step three, you would come up with a research question.
- Posing a historical question opens up research to more reference possibilities.
- Next, in step four, you generate sub-questions from your main question.
- It is likely that someone has researched your topic before, and even possibly a question similar to yours.
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Entering the Scientific Conversation
- If you want to make sure you catch the most important features of the article, ask pointed questions while you read.
- These twelve questions are essential to a thorough summary of a scientific article:
- What question, problem, or issue did the article address in relation to the topic?
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"So What?"
- Your writing should provide a clear answer to the question of why the problem matters.
- " question for dedicated environmentalists.
- " question for your new audience.
- Problem statements should always give readers a clear answer to the question, "So what?
- Another way to think of this is to say, it is important to answer the "so what" question for readers, demonstrating to them the importance of your argumentative position.
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Step 2: Researching
- It's useful to begin with a few questions related to your topic.
- Putting your question right into your search engine can start you on a treasure hunt.
- Putting that question into a search engine yields many articles, some very recent.
- You have a question, you find information that informs you, and you make your question more specific.
- You keep at it (a more specific question, finding a variety of well-thought-out answers to the question, which lead to a still-more-specific question) until you feel confident creating a statement you can stand behind.