{"id":23274,"date":"2023-07-06T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/craft-a-research-question-about-a-primary-source-familiarize-yourself-with-the-existing-scholarship-on-your-topic-not-your-primary-source-discuss-your-own-ideas-in-relation-to-the-scholarship-that\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:15:21","slug":"craft-a-research-question-about-a-primary-source-familiarize-yourself-with-the-existing-scholarship-on-your-topic-not-your-primary-source-discuss-your-own-ideas-in-relation-to-the-scholarship-that","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/craft-a-research-question-about-a-primary-source-familiarize-yourself-with-the-existing-scholarship-on-your-topic-not-your-primary-source-discuss-your-own-ideas-in-relation-to-the-scholarship-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft a research question about a primary source. Familiarize yourself with the existing scholarship on your topic (not your primary source). Discuss your own ideas in relation to the scholarship that&#8217;s currently available."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>conduct a library research to locate 3-5 secondary sources (they must be scholarly\/academic and published in 2010 or later) that represent key viewpoints on your chosen topic. Write an overview of the scholarly&nbsp; discussion of your chosen topic that includes&nbsp; at minimum:&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<ol style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 19pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">your research question (to be placed at the top of the paper, immediately below the title)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 19pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">a 2-3 paragraph overview of the scholarly conversations (i.e. the &#8220;literature&#8221; and\/or the &#8220;they say&#8221;) on your chosen topic<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 19pt; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; line-height: 1.38; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">an MLA-formatted Works Cited page listing all of your secondary sources<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conduct a library research to locate 3-5 secondary sources (they must be scholarly\/academic and published in 2010 or later) that represent key viewpoints on your chosen topic. Write an overview of the scholarly&nbsp; discussion of your chosen topic that includes&nbsp; at minimum:&nbsp; your research question (to be placed at the top of the paper, immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1110],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}