The Research Process Chart

As a generic reference, the following process can be helpful in refining and concretizing your ideas:

• Ask yourself: “Why is this research important? What have other people done? What have they found?”
• Based on this information, formulate a specific research question.
• Develop a hypothesis/hypotheses that stems from your research question.
• Indentify the specific aims, that is the steps you are going to take to test your hypothesis.