This organizer walks students through the process of creating a strong, debatable research question.

In PHASE 1, students will consider whether their question...

• requires a judgement to me made
• is researchable
• involves genuine points of ongoing debate
• invites engagement from alternate perspectives
• is simple and straightforward

In PHASE 2, students will narrow the scope of their research question by fine-tuning the...

• problem or issue at hand
• place where this is a problem
• people affected by this problem
• the perspective of the issue to be addressed

2 sample research question evolutions are provided.