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Research Plan Activity

Preparation: students are asked to come to class with their potential research question.

Activity: the instructor will present the students with a very basic question (e.g what is
the ideal dog to own in Egypt, what I get my best-friend/mom for her birthday etc.
Students are then asked to come up the necessary information deliverables to enable
them to answer this question.

What is the ideal dog to own in Egypt?


For each question, the student
Information deliverables/key questions: is to identify the source of this
information.
- What is the purpose of the dog? Pet or security? These can only be
answered by the Questions of a similar nature
- What is the budget?
potential owner – and are placed under a similar
- Is this for an apartment or villa? (size of
reflect personal needs. heading. For example: financial
dog/shedding?)
issues, dog care etc.
- Does any member of the family have allergies?
- Is it going to be around children? Does it need to
be good with children?
These can be clumped
- How much training does the dog require?
together as well, under
- How much care/attention/exercise is required
dog care logistics
daily?
- What’s the monthly budget required? Includes
vaccines?
- What are the owners’ life-styles?
- Perceived medical issues by breed ?

Outcomes of the exercise:


Research Question Fine-tuning: As can be seen this is a poor research question as there are too many loose ends. The question needs
to indicate the living environment and purpose of the animal.

Research Target identification: For each question, the ideal research source will be identified – example, secondary data, vet, other
dog owners. Students are asked to make choices about what questions are must haves and which ones are ‘nice to have’.

Identification of body-paragraphs for paper: Putting questions into clusters gives us an idea of how to manage the information once
it has been collected – the clusters can serve as potential body-paragraphs since they represent key components.

Framework for questioning tool: If the student is going to conduct primary data collection, then this exercise has identified the main
questions that will go into the tool. If the student is going to rely on secondary data then the questions will serve as the research
guide.

This exercise is extremely useful in that it enables the students to see the practical side of the research process and to experience the
difficulties of trying to answer poorly constructed research questions.

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