It depends. For instance, a key word might be "cohort" study, which is in the book. If you were looking for something to do with causation/association, cohort would obviously be a keyword, as that type of study links to those types of concepts.
But you should phrase your research question not exactly the way you want to per se, but depending on what you're interested in, and what your relationship to "practice" is. What's difficult is knowing how to translate what you're interested in into language that the field uses. Or you could go the opposite way and use the field's language to find something that you're interested in.
But you're question specifically pertains to the reading. In terms of research questions, for me, the book is really only helpful as a method to accomplish research. I'm not expecting language from the book to trickle into the research question, although it could in a very indirect way--for interested, if you didn't know the word "phenomenological," and you were interested in qualitative work, that would be a really important word that the book would mention in passing that could easily trickle into the research question.
But the research question is really up to you. The book is to guide us through the research process. It's merely background support, and I don't expect it to be a part of the research itself.
Do you want us to phrase our research question(s) using the keywords as it suggests in the reading? Thanks!
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DeleteIt depends. For instance, a key word might be "cohort" study, which is in the book. If you were looking for something to do with causation/association, cohort would obviously be a keyword, as that type of study links to those types of concepts.
DeleteBut you should phrase your research question not exactly the way you want to per se, but depending on what you're interested in, and what your relationship to "practice" is. What's difficult is knowing how to translate what you're interested in into language that the field uses. Or you could go the opposite way and use the field's language to find something that you're interested in.
But you're question specifically pertains to the reading. In terms of research questions, for me, the book is really only helpful as a method to accomplish research. I'm not expecting language from the book to trickle into the research question, although it could in a very indirect way--for interested, if you didn't know the word "phenomenological," and you were interested in qualitative work, that would be a really important word that the book would mention in passing that could easily trickle into the research question.
But the research question is really up to you. The book is to guide us through the research process. It's merely background support, and I don't expect it to be a part of the research itself.
I hope that answers your question