Competency

Create a research question for a study that will help fill a gap and provide benefits in a field.

Scenario

You are a first-year graduate student. You are taking a graduate course on research and writing. In this assignment, your professor has asked that you create a research question for a topic you are interested in and that you also perform an initial literature review.

Instructions

In a paper, do the following:

• Explain the research question you would like to pursue and why you chose it. It should be researchable, feasible to pursue in the time span of a school term, and of interest to you.
• Explain what type of research will be most appropriate to answer your research question.
• Perform a literature review to help identify how your research study will contribute to current knowledge about the topic. Include at least ten (10) scholarly sources from the last five years that are relevant to your research question. In your literature review, you should analyze the content of the articles reviewed, compare findings in different articles, and integrate the literature into an organized discussion.

Resources

For assistance on a writing literature review, please visit the Rasmussen College Answers page.
Library databases such as the following are great resources for this project:

• Health Sciences
  • CINAHL Plus
  • Health Sciences and Nursing via ProQuest
  • Medline
• Business
  • Business Source Complete
  • Business via ProQuest

Another database that you may be interested in knowing about is ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.  You can view original research, view research design, data gathering techniques, etc.