Description
Throughout this course you develop a research-based project plan related to public administration, public policy, or nonprofit management and leadership. Depending on your field, the plan you create will be a policy analysis, program evaluation, or administrative analysis. Each week you complete various stages of your plan, including a research question, literature review, identification of the types of data and research methods, and conclusions and recommendations. For this Assignment, you refine your research question from this week’s Discussion based on peer feedback and the Research Question Guidelines located in this week’s Learning Resources.
To complete:
- With peer feedback in mind, refine the research question you posted in this week’s Discussion.
- Compare your research question to the Research Question Guidelines document and refine accordingly.
- State your research question.
- Write a 1- to 2-page rationale for your research question, including why the question is relevant to public administration, public policy, or nonprofit management.
Reminder: Use APA guidelines for citations and formatting.
Isaiah Hannah Response
RE: Discussion – Week 3
Great question! This should be a very interesting research paper. Are you focusing just on how civil and private liberties are effecting American citizens or are you including terrorists as well? Terrorist have been mistreated over the years as they rights have been violated by the American government policies since 9/11.
Research Question
Name of Student
Institution Affiliation
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RESEARCH QUESTION
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Research Question
What are the effects of the privacy and civil liberties policies on the operation of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
Viability
The research question can be held as viable for the scope of this course since it entails an
interest of one of the topics of the course. According to Booth et al. (2016), the identification of
interest of a given topic forms the basis of generating a viable research question. Thus, due to my
interest in the public policy, I was in a position to develop a viable research question that relates
to my selected agency precisely the Department of Homeland Security.
Challenges
One of the challenges that I encountered when conceptualizing issues as a research
question was developing a rational argument. The literature review process requires the
development of an appropriate argument that matches with the research interest (Machi &
McEvoy, 2016). Thus, this requirement of formulating an argument that is in line with the
research interest proved to be challenging while drafting the research question. Ensuring a
balanced nature of the research question was another challenge that I confronted when
conceptualizing issues as a research question. An optimal research question is characterized by
the aspect of being neither too broad nor too shrink (Empire State College, n.d.). Thus, ensuring
that the research question was neither too extensive nor too narrow proved to be challenging.
RESEARCH QUESTION
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References
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M., Bizup, J. & Fitzgerald, W. T. (2016). The craft of
research (4th ed.). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Empire State College. (n.d.). Developing a research question. Retrieved August 28, 2014,
from http://www8.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/f87fd7182f0ff21c8
52569c2005a47b7
Machi, L. A., & McEvoy, B. T. (2016). The literature review: Six steps to success (3rd ed.).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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