{"id":79,"date":"2015-03-12T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2015-06-02T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:05:18","slug":"research-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"Research Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specific research questions should have the following characteristics (thanks to Freya Kinner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Based in theory or the literature<\/li>\n<li>Tells what will be studied<\/li>\n<li>Meets some need (societal or scientific)<\/li>\n<li>Tells how it will meet the need<\/li>\n<li>Can be operationalized (is possible given resources, time and expertise)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most geology questions fall into 3 categories which are described\u00a0<a title=\"Types of Questions\" href=\"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=84\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Research fellows give their question writing suggestions\u00a0<a title=\"Tips for Asking Questions\" href=\"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=88\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s powerpoint for introducing this material in class is here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dave_class_intro.pdf\">Dave Class Intro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First steps for developing research questions are\u00a0<a title=\"Starting Research Materials\" href=\"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=90\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A list of possible methods that may help answer your research questions <a title=\"Possible Methods\" href=\"http:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=97\">are\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specific research questions should have the following characteristics (thanks to Freya Kinner: Based in theory or the literature Tells what will be studied Meets some need (societal or scientific) Tells how it will meet the need Can be operationalized (is possible given resources, time and expertise) Most geology questions fall into 3 categories which are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/?page_id=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7rmFU-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watershed-research.wcu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}