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This guide outlines steps to effectively narrow down research topics in Internet Security. Begin by identifying specific strategies to refine your broad topic into a focused research question. Understand the significance of formulating a clear research question, which is essential for successful research. This question must explore areas where definitive answers are lacking, prompting deeper inquiry and analysis. Including examples, the guide encourages the creation of relevant research questions that contribute meaningfully to academic discourse and problem-solving within the field of Internet Security.
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Step One Narrow Down your Topic
Internet Security: • How to narrow this topic Down? • What are the strategies that one should consider?
Step Two Find your Research Question
What is the Research Question? • Research requires a question for which no ready answer is available. • It is answered in your thesis & throughout your paper • Whenever a yes / no question lies behind a research question, an assumption has been made; therefore, you should: • Identify the assumption • Support it in your paper (introduction)
RQ: Why is it important? • Asking a topic as a question (or series of related questions) has several advantages: 1- Questions require answers They are not like general topics or statements that are too broad to be answered and sometimes they are confusing.
2-A clear open-ended question calls for real research and thinking. Assuming that your research may solve significant problems or expand the knowledge base of a discipline involves you in more meaningful activity of community and scholarship.
Exercise I: Put two Research Questions for each of the following topics: • Laws regarding divorce in Egypt • AIDS awareness campaign held in Egypt • Political Participation in Egypt
Exercise II : Look at question markers for clues, and Consider how you would form the question