The third chapter of The Bedford Researcher, titled Developing Your Research Question and Proposal, is divided into two halves. The first half of the chapter goes into details about how to develop a research question. It begins by telling you (as the reader) to reflect on your writing style and to then generate some potential research questions, giving some different ideas for questions to ask, such as what assumptions have been made, what information is known about a topic, and what has been done about this topic in the past. Then, this section has you begin crafting questions that reflect the writing situation you are in, and after making those questions, has you select and refine what questions you are asking based on what you are trying to write about.
The second half of this chapter goes into how to make a research proposal. This section begins with having you identify the topic and different issues posed by your research question, and then write down a summary of what you find. Then, this section goes into having you specify how you will collect your information for your project, having you identify relevant types of sources, appropriate search tools, and research methods. After this, the section has you develop a project timeline, make a working bibliography, and then has you clarify the original proposal so that it is easier to understand what the project is about, what challenges will arise, and gives a budget for how much it will cost to complete this project.
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