{"id":1053,"date":"2018-05-25T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&p=1053"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:32:17","slug":"questions-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/questions-to-ask\/","title":{"raw":"Questions to Ask","rendered":"Questions to Ask"},"content":{"raw":"When you are exploring the ways in which research might fit into your work, it is often useful to ask yourself a series of pointed questions. These questions will prompt you to think of research as more than something that needs to be plugged in at the last minute; they will encourage you to think in terms of the research improving<\/strong> your argument and making it more complex.\r\n\r\nYou can come up with your own list of questions, but here are some that may help you on your way:\r\n
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  1. What concepts am I discussing that may need to be defined? What might be some good (complex, specific) sources in which to find these definitions?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. What aspects of my thesis might be strengthened via the use of data and statistics?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. What aspects of my thesis might be strengthened via a focus on historical or factual information about the broader categories into which my primary example fits?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. What aspects of my thesis might benefit from the introduction of alternative perspectives (arguments that seem to contradict mine, arguments regarding related but distinct subject matter, etc.)?<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. Where in my thesis would use of a scholarly concept be beneficial?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

    When you are exploring the ways in which research might fit into your work, it is often useful to ask yourself a series of pointed questions. These questions will prompt you to think of research as more than something that needs to be plugged in at the last minute; they will encourage you to think in terms of the research improving<\/strong> your argument and making it more complex.<\/p>\n

    You can come up with your own list of questions, but here are some that may help you on your way:<\/p>\n

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    1. What concepts am I discussing that may need to be defined? What might be some good (complex, specific) sources in which to find these definitions?<\/li>\n
    2. What aspects of my thesis might be strengthened via the use of data and statistics?<\/li>\n
    3. What aspects of my thesis might be strengthened via a focus on historical or factual information about the broader categories into which my primary example fits?<\/li>\n
    4. What aspects of my thesis might benefit from the introduction of alternative perspectives (arguments that seem to contradict mine, arguments regarding related but distinct subject matter, etc.)?<\/li>\n
    5. Where in my thesis would use of a scholarly concept be beneficial?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"menu_order":26,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1053","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":993,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1053\/revisions\/2314"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/993"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1053\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}