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In writing the research question in your paper, it may not be always in forms of questions.

You may paraphrase the questions into statements

Read the provided research questions and evaluate each of them by identifying the problem
and find the solution to revise them.

No. Research Question Bad/ Good Solution (If any)
1. Is having breakfast important for health?
2. How does reading habit influence the
vocabulary level of university students?
3. How do gadgets affect our lives?

4. What is cyber-bullying?
5. What are the university students’
perceptions of online banking?
6. How does e-money influence the shopping
habits of senior high school students?

Vocabulary

Useful Expressions for Stating Research Goals

To identify… To estimate… To analyze …

To establish… To find out… To describe…
To determine… To compare… To reveal…

Examples:

1. To find out the relationship between breakfast and immediate recall memory of
school children.
2. To describe the implementation of e-government in two rural areas in Indonesia.

The followings are useful words to state research goals. Match the words in box A with their
definition in box B.

No. Words Definition

1 Identify a. to say or write what someone or something is like

2 Establish b. to control or influence something directly, or to decide what will
happen

3 Determine c. to discover or get proof of something
4 Estimate d. to study something in a systematic and careful way

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