Rough Draft=A-plus writer

If you’re receiving this message, it’s because I read your AR Research Plan and want to discuss narrowing your “Research Question” with you.

First, congratulations on getting your topic into the form of a workable research question. You’re already ahead of a lot of your fellow classmates. However, it’s important that you narrow down your focus and use concrete parameters when finalizing your research question.

Most of the time, this means you need to be more precise and exacting with the language used in the research question.

For instance, if your topic was something like, “What is the most feasible option to solve current aviation fuel inefficiency,” you’d want to narrow down some of the more general terms—“feasible” and “fuel inefficiency.” There’s lots of ways to define feasibility. What specifically are you referring to? Easiest to implement? Cheapest? Most efficient? Etc. And what do you mean by “fuel inefficiency?” Be more concrete with your parameters.

Trust me, the more narrowed and precise you can get your research question, the easier it’ll be to research and write the paper.

Several of you had various research questions toward the bottom of your research plan, but they usually delt with varying aspects of the topic you're looking at. You need one central research question that governs the project as a whole. It may mean choosing one of those individual aspects to focus on for the report or somehow combining related aspects into one central research question.