Please develop a research question. You will use this research question throughout this course. Your paper should include a paragraph or two to provide some background about the topic and explain how your research would fit into existing literature on the topic. YOU MUST INCLUDE CITATIONS. Also, explain your search method (APUS library, other university or scholarly databases, academic journals, or Google Scholar) to access the most relevant information about your topic.
If you are wondering what a search method is, it is a process or technique. It is “how” you go about researching a topic. Typically, you will have criteria (a way of measuring what you find to determine if it is relevant) and you will have search terms (which are specific references to dates, places, events, people, concepts, or authors, that can be used in a search engine). A search method might include examining a wide variety of databases; it might include using the references in books and articles to find more sources. It might include restricting yourself to peer reviewed journal articles and government publications. No matter what paper or what topic, you will always be using some method for searching for the information you need.
You should have a specific set of parameters. In other words, when will the data begin and when will it end. For instance, you might ask why China built islands in the South China Sea and then tell the reader that you will look at data from 2014-2022.
You WILL ALSO INCLUDE A HYPOTHESIS. That’s one potential answer to your question. You will be testing in the data that you collect on the topic.
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