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The document outlines the key elements of a research project: 1. The research problem is the ultimate goal that drives the project and aims to discover solutions or introduce new approaches. It provides the focus for the research topic. 2. Background research is conducted to understand what is already known about the problem from experts and literature. This provides context and can reveal supporting theories. 3. Research questions are generated from the problem to give the study direction. The overarching question is broken into specific sub-questions that identify the exact aspects of the problem to examine. The questions guide data collection and analysis methods.

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Elements of A Research Project 3

The document outlines the key elements of a research project: 1. The research problem is the ultimate goal that drives the project and aims to discover solutions or introduce new approaches. It provides the focus for the research topic. 2. Background research is conducted to understand what is already known about the problem from experts and literature. This provides context and can reveal supporting theories. 3. Research questions are generated from the problem to give the study direction. The overarching question is broken into specific sub-questions that identify the exact aspects of the problem to examine. The questions guide data collection and analysis methods.

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Elements of a Research Project

a. Meaning of Research Problem

• The ultimate goal of the research is not only to propose ways of studying things, people, places,
and events, but also to discover and introduce new practices, strategies, or techniques in solving a
problem.

• The word “problem” makes you worry and pushes you to exert considerable effort in finding a
solution for it.

• You consider research as the remedy for getting over any problem.

• When you decide to do research, you begin with a problem that will lead you to a specific topic
to focus on.

• For instance, you are beset by a problem of year-by-year flash floods in your community. This
problem drives you to think of one topic you can investigate or focus on for the solution to your
community’s flood problem. Perhaps, you can research only one aspect of the flood problem, like
examining only the neighborhood lifestyle in relation to floods in the area, the need to construct anti-
flood structures, or the practicability of more footbridges in the area. (Gray 2013)

b. Background of the Problem

• First, spend time getting background knowledge about the problem that triggered off your
research topic to discover its relation to what the world, particularly the experts, professionals, and
learned people know about your topic.

• Also, reading for rich background ideas about the problem is also another way to discover some
theories or principles to support your study. (Braun 2014; Woodwell 2014)

c. Research Questions

• The research problem enables you to generate a set of research questions.

• To get a good idea of the problem, you must have a rich background knowledge about the topic
through the RRL (Review of Related Literature), which requires intensive reading about your topic.

• Apart from having a clearer picture of the topic, it will also help you in adopting an appropriate
research method and have a thorough understanding of the knowledge area of your research.

• To give your study a clear direction, you have to break this big, general question into several
smaller or specific research questions.

• The specific questions, also called sub-problems, identify or direct you to the exact aspect of the
problem that your study has to focus on.

• Beset by many factors, the general question or research problem is prone to reducing itself to
several specific questions, seeking conclusive answers to the problem.
• Research questions aim at investigating specific aspects of the research problem.

• Though deduced from the general or mother

question, one specific question may lead to another sub-problem or sub-question, requiring a different
data-gathering technique and directing the research to a triangulation or mixed method approach.

• Referring to varied aspects of the general problem, a set of research questions plays a crucial
part in the entire research work.

• Through sub-questions, you can precisely determine the type of data and the method of
collecting, analyzing, and presenting data.

• Any method or technique of collecting, collating, and analyzing data specified by the research
design depends greatly on the research questions.

• The correct formulation of research questions warrants not only excellent collection, analysis,
and presentation of data, but a credible conclusion as well. (Layder 2013)

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