You are asked to provide the topic of your research project. Write the title of your project and a short summary. Topics explored may include racial profiling, juvenile delinquency, policing, the war on drugs, fear of crime, prisoner re-entry in a context of a specific neighborhood.
Then, you are expected to narrow down your chosen topic to a research question. A research question is the starting point for investigations in the natural and social sciences. It directs the phenomena that a study will be examining and seeking to explain.
A research question helps to focus on one’s research. A successful paper depends to a large extent on the quality of the research question that has been set. Setting a focused and narrow question is a fundamental step towards writing a concise and well-structured paper. If your question is unclear or unanswerable, then your paper is set to be poor from the beginning. This means that it is important to engage meaningfully with the process of the question setting.
The question you set should be one that you are genuinely interested in exploring since you will be spending a lot of time researching and writing about the topic that you elect.
EXAMPLES:
- Topic: The War on Drugs in Jackson Heights, Queens: A Closer Look. Research question: How has the War on Drugs in Jackson Heights, Queens impacted law enforcement’s relationship with members in the community?
- Topic: Day workers presence in Queens Blvd. Research question: How do day workers affect the neighborhood of Queens Blvd?
- Topic: Gentrification in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Research question: How has the gentrification impacted Flatbush?
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Read how to post in OpenLab – https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/blog/help/how-to-write-a-post-or-page-on-an-open-lab-wordpress-site/
- Write an OpenLab post with your research question.
DEADLINE: September 18th, 11:59 pm
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One research question I would like to talk about is why people don’t pay for the fare on public transport. It comes down to many different situations but in most situations the person just cant afford to pay for transit everytime they need to go to work or school. In my own personal situation I dont have to pay for the transit but I believe it should be free for anyone below 21 for the simple fact that most teens going into college dont have enough to pay for books, college, food, rent and the fare. So I would like to research more about why people dont pay the fares ?
Joshua, could you please actually make a post, not a comment? See what other students wrote here: https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/crj-204criminal-justice-and-the-urban-community/category/student-work/
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