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Starting Research Right

Creating Research Questions/Statements 

Once you've mapped out your topic and done some background research, you can come up with a research question you want to answer or a statement that you want to prove.  Your research question should include one or more main topics, and all the sources you use will relate to at least one of the topics.

Activity:

You'll see six examples of research statements.  Using this form, identify the main ideas in each one.