{"id":29611,"date":"2024-07-11T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/research-question-and-hypothesis-exercise-retention-wildland-firefighter-united-states-forest-service\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:39:51","slug":"research-question-and-hypothesis-exercise-retention-wildland-firefighter-united-states-forest-service","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/research-question-and-hypothesis-exercise-retention-wildland-firefighter-united-states-forest-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Question and Hypothesis Exercise (retention wildland firefighter United States Forest Service)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Please write this with the topic of retention issues in the United States forest service for wildland firefighters.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Attached are a few references and if this can be typed in APA format.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">1. Start your assignment with an introductory paragraph about your research topic and why it is of interest and a research &#8220;puzzle.&#8221; You want to guide your reader from your research area to your research topic, then on to your general research question and specific research question.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: normal; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">While there are many ways to frame a research question, at the graduate level, your research questions should be 1) open-ended and start with &#8220;How,&#8221; &#8220;Why,&#8221; &#8220;What,&#8221; or &#8220;To what extent;&#8221; 2) should incorporate the variables you seek to assess and their relationship; and 3) should indicate how you intend to test the nature of that relationship. You want to make sure that your question has an appropriate amount of complexity so that it requires a significant amount of research and analysis. A simple Google search<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">should not<\/u><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>be able to answer your research question.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Too broad:&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>How can personal ambition in politics be harmful?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Too narrow:&nbsp;<\/strong>What is Vladimir Putin\u2019s position on ballistic missile defense?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Too vague:&nbsp;<\/strong>What is Vladimir Putin\u2019s &#8220;operational code?&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Appropriately Complex and Focused:&nbsp;<\/strong>To what extent has Vladimir Putin been motivated by a drive for power compared to his predecessor Boris Yeltsin?<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">A key question to help address the above central research question may be:<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>How have Putin&#8217;s personal ambitions shaped Russia&#8217;s relations with the United States?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">2.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Next, provide a purpose statement that conveys your intentions about what you hope to produce. See the references in your Lessons for additional insight. Often within the literature, this discussion is usually called out by a phrase like the following: &#8220;This paper examines . . .,&#8221; &#8220;The aim of this paper is to . . .,&#8221; or &#8220;The purpose of this essay is to . . .&#8221;. Remember that a purpose statement makes a promise to the reader about the development of the argument but does not preview the particular conclusions that the writer has drawn. Your purpose statement should demonstrate what you are hoping to find out, and also explain what you want your readers to understand (motivation or argument of the research). Later on, when you go to write a paper, a trick to help keep your paper focused on your purpose or argument is to paste it into the header or footer while you write.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">This formula and example set from the Baruch College Writing Center may be helpful:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<table style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<tbody style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<tr style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">This student is studying&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">(Narrowed Topic)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;because this author wants to find out&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">(Research Question)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;.so that readers understand&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">(Motivation or Argument)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Differences in Boston-based and Philadelphia-based abolitionist rhetoric&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;why Boston-based abolitionists emphasized broad themes of social justice&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;how previous scholars may have overlooked the role of free black Bostonians in shaping anti-slavery ideals.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"cursor: auto;\">\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">The Origins of the Glass-Steagall Act<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;why lawmakers supported its passage&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&#8230;that their motives resulted not from careful economic analysis but rather from ideological preconceptions about the role of commercial banks in society.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">(From Baruch College Writing Center &#8220;Focusing Research Topics Workshop&#8221; www.writingcenter.baruch.cuny.edu)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">3. Pull out the dependent (DV) and independent variable(s) (IV) that you are interested in looking at. This needs to be specific and you need to discuss ideas for how you might go about measuring the impact that the IV has on the DV. You need to focus on one or two specific variables (and discuss how they are defined), otherwise, your research will quickly spin out of control as you will not have the capacity to effectively address the relationship between all the variables. The<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">PRS Group<\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>offers a good list of variables they use in their research. This list is just an example of variables to show you what a variable might look like and how it might be defined.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Hypothesis: A statement for how a change or condition in one or more independent variables causes (s) a change or condition in a dependent variable.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Not all studies or research papers require the use of a hypothesis. In most cases, hypotheses are used when a study is conducting an experiment or when a study is quantitative in nature. However, this is an important skill to develop in case you do go on to complete quantitative research or conduct a formal experiment.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">In this next step, you will develop a hypothesis that reflects your educated guess as to the relationship between your selected variables. You may use an &#8220;if&#8221; or &#8220;then&#8221; statement or you may formulate it as a narrative statement.&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Finally, explain why these are the important variables to look at within this research project. 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