AF: Question Analysis -- due Tuesday

from Reading Rhetorically

DUE TUESDAY, March 7 Copy/Paste these questions into a Google Doc, and answer. Please print so that I may keep your thinking handy in my MVA 2017 Folder.

Prompts for Question Analysis

1. What question do you hope to investigate -- and answer -- in this paper?
2. What makes this question worth pursuing -- to you and others?
3. What kind of expert would be able to provide good answers or the current best thinking about possible answers?
4. Where do you expect to find particularly good information about the matter?
5. How recent must materials be to be relevant? What factors might make information outdated?
6. What individuals or interest groups have a major stake in answering your question in a particular way?
7. What kind of bias do you need to be especially alert for on this particular question?
8. What words or phrases might be useful for some initial searching?  

(Bean, Chappell, and Gillam 2011, 108)