Article review
Answering these questions requires extensive reading and exploration research in your area—exploration to understand the context and reading primary, peer-reviewed research to see what has already been done and what has yet to be done.
Research problems should be relevant, current, and feasible.
Topic Area: What is the general problem within your topic?
Connection to Context: How do we know it’s a problem? (Should be local knowledge and knowledge from research)
Significance: How have researchers explored this problem from various perspectives?
Focus: What do researchers tell us is still unknown about this problem (this is your specific focus)?
Specific Problem: Therefore, the problem to be explored is ________________
Significance: What will continue to happen if we don’t fix or explore or research this problem?
About 2 to 21/2 pages
