Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Research Question

Research Question, due Feb. 16 
Based on this preliminary work, formulate a research question to drive the remainder of your data collection and analysis.

A good research question should be
- Narrow v. Broad
- an outline of what is to be studied
- passing the So What? test
- researchable

Research question v1: Is The Canadian Mountain as constructed by Canadian nationalism relevant to the mountain memories held by diasporic people who no longer dwell in the mountains of BC? 

-fails the so what? test

Research question v2: How does the reinforcement of The Canadian Mountain for Canadian nationalist imagery produce displacement and cause internal diasporas?

- can be narrower

Research question v3: What is the difference between the ways Canadian nationalist reinforcement of The Canadian Mountain image has produced Nikkei and Indigenous displacement?

- how is this researchable?




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