Share your REVISED research question as a comment below. Make sure to include your name. ALL Anonymous posts will be deleted and will not receive credit for this assignment.
In addition to posting your question, I also want you to read through all of your classmates' questions. Ask yourself: Besides my own observations, how are my classmates making connections between their constructs and their majors and/or personal interests? How are their questions different/similar to mine? What can I do to make my research question the best one possible?
Finally, after you've read through each question carefully, RESPOND to AT LEAST one of the questions that most interests you. Be respectful, first and foremost; then, let your classmate know what you liked about his/her research question, what he/she can do to improve their question, and how their question is similar/different to your own.
DEADLINE: please have YOUR question posted NO LATER than 10pm on Friday, October 9. ALL responses to questions should be posted by 10pm on Saturday, October 10th, no exceptions.
What is the ideal way to study as an engineering student?
ReplyDeleteI like your question because it deals with the same construct I am doing of studying. The difference is mine deals with business. I feel like you can improve your question if you add how a study plan would make a engineering student successful in that field. I still think it will be an interesting research question either way.
Delete-Robert Tafolla
I liked your question because I fall into the engineering student category. This is a really good question to investigate but also very vast; I recommend centering it around a specific branch in engineering, like civil engineering. Our questions were very different: yours is about studying, while mine is about change. You can always have change in how one studies, so that's a similarity.
DeleteGood luck!
-Oscar Torres
No name, no feedback. Sorry.
DeleteDo students benefit from procrastination or does procrastination only affect them?
ReplyDelete-Marilyn Herrera
I liked your question because I can relate to it, I am a procrastinator myself. You can possibly improve your question by asking if procrastination has a mental or physical effect on the student. Our questions are similar because my construct topic is procrastination as well.
Delete-Hipolito Salinas III
I like your question because I feel like its something that affects almost all students. To improve your question, maybe you could also try to ask how it would either be helpful or harmful to possibly get a more detailed response. I feel like our questions differ because my construct is communication and how it is an important factor in art.
Delete-Anna Gonzalez
Let's refine your question: How/why do UTRGV students procrastinate and what impact does this behavior have on their academic progress?
DeleteHow does feedback help a dancer improve?
ReplyDeleteAlejandra Salazar
I personally think this is a good question to ask, because people can learn what they need to work on and what they are good at so they can focus more on improving their routine.
Delete- sam valdez
I think your question is really good but it could be better. Maybe you can specify what kind of dancers is your question directed to. Apart from that I think this is an amazing topic to research since feedback, as we ourselves have been learning, plays a key role in developing and improving in whatever we do.
Delete-Erick Brandon Sanchez
Let's refine your awesome question, Alejandra: How/why can feedback help dancers improve, where should they look for feedback, and what steps should they take to make sure they make the most out of the feedback they receive?
DeleteWould the founding fathers be taken serious if the Declaration for independence, had grammatical error or was the idea enough to grab Britains attention more?
ReplyDelete-Noe Garcia
Let's refine your awesome question, Noe. Gonna change your construct just a bit to provide a wider perspective: What are some of the key rhetorical strategies employed in the composition of the Declaration of Independence. What can students learn about rhetorical strategies from this historical document?
DeleteHow can the concept of college "good writing" relate to music
ReplyDelete-Ireneo Ongcal
Music and writing are similar in many different ways music is basically another form of writing that can tell a story or take you on an emotional train ride. I believe this is a great topic that you can really dive into and expand on. -Jonathan Goris
DeleteLet's refine your awesome question, Ireneo, by getting more specific: Is it possible for popular music to help students improve as writers? If so, how/why? What are the elements of popular music (lyrics, rhetoric, etc.) that students can focus on in order to become better writers?
DeleteHow does rhetorical reading and critical thinking guide a music artist to make a song and how is it important for their career?
ReplyDelete-Brendaly Benavides
I like this question because it relates to my question except mine deals with writing. You can improve by saying if it guides them negatively or positively. Its similar my question in how a subject can be relate to something in real life: music.
Delete-ireneo ongcal
Let's refine your awesome question, Brendaly: What are some of the key strategies popular songwriters employ in the process of composing their songs? What do Pharell, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney focus on when composing their hit songs? What can college students learn about critical thinking and rhetorical strategies by studying the writing processes of these individuals?
DeleteIs the structure of your essay really going to depend on how your message is going to get across?
ReplyDelete-Adrian Garcia
I like this question because in high school we were taught that an essay must be five paragraphs and in college it isn't like that. As college freshman most of us can relate to this and I don't think the structure matters as long as you get your point across.
Delete-Iris Rodriguez
Let's refine your awesome question, Adrian: How/why is structure important to academic essays, and what strategies should students develop to understand the impact the structure of an essay can have on the narrative's overall reception?
DeleteWhat is the significance of structure in our society and political system? And how does the structure of our society affect our way of living?
ReplyDelete-Yuncheng Gao
Broad question that would take too much time to research, so let's do some refining, Y. Gonna switch your construct just a bit. How bout this: How/why should UTRGV students structure their study habits in order to be successful? What strategies should students on campus develop in order to structure their study habits in the most efficient way possible?
DeleteHow does procrastination affect high school football players?
ReplyDelete-Justin Rios
I personally lie this question because it would be interesting if procrastination affects high school football players because they have to wake u early for practice and also stay late after school to practice as well. After all this practice you wonder where they get some time to actually do their homework or study because even if you're the best on the team, you're still not going to play on Friday night. So this would be an interesting topic to hear about.
Delete-Luis Bonilla
Let's refine your awesome question, Justin: What do high school football players know about procrastination and what impact is it having on them directly? How big of a problem is procrastination among the football players at this high school? What are some of the key strategies these football players should develop in order to overcome procrastination?
DeleteIn order to have a successful athlete career, do someone need to be a good student in college?
ReplyDelete-Alondra Garcia
I like your question because you are going to be able to talk to college students around campus about this question. Your question is also similar to mine as i compare student athletes in high school with procrastination. You could discuss how practice and games effect school and studies.
Delete-Justin Rios
Let's refine your awesome question, Alondra: At UTRGV, how do student athletes deal with the pressures of sports and academics? Specifically, what do student athletes do in order to be successful on both fronts? What are some of the key strategies student athletes should develop in order to be successful athletes and students?
DeleteDoes a good study plan build a successful student in the business major field?
ReplyDelete-Robert Tafolla
Let's refine your awesome question, Robert: How do UTRGV business majors study, and how is it different/similar to study habits in other majors? What are some of the key study strategies UTRGV business majors should develop in order to successfully graduate?
DeleteHow do the ways in which second language learners are taught in their native language compare to the ways they are taught when they transition from one culture to another? How could they present a challenge?
ReplyDelete-Erick Brandon Sanchez
I personally like this question because we are in the Valley and theirs a lot of people that can give you feedback on your research on campus. to improve this question I would focused on the age that person transition to see if that has an effect. This question is different to mine because in my question I focused on the outcome of what we are thought and in this question he focuses more on having to transition.
Delete-Adrian Garcia
I personally like your question even though is nothing similar to mine and I like it because I am a second language learned but you can improve your qiestion if you add what kind of culure, for example spanish as a first language and the culture being mexico or somethimg like that, good luck :)
Delete-Alondra Garcia
Let's refine your awesome question, Erick: How do 2nd-language learners, specifically those from Mexico, cope with the transition from high school to UTRGV? What's difficult/easy for them in this new college environment and what strategies have they developed to acclimate to the academic pressures of UTRGV?
DeleteHow can feedback help a Dietitian stay up to date with their patients? And how will this help the patients stay healthy?
ReplyDelete-Iris Rodriguez
I really like your question because feedback can not only help the Dietitian but the patient as well. I believe that Dietitians get feedback from their patients in order for the dietitian to make sure they can help their patients be healthy. The patient benefits from this because they get to become and stay healthy with the help of the Dietitian.
Delete-Alejandra Salazar
Let's refine your awesome question, Iris: What do dietitian majors currently express about feedback and its role in this major? How/why is feedback important/unimportant to this major and where should students look for it?
DeleteWhat is the difference between the structure of an essay and the structure of music?
ReplyDelete-Roberto Munoz
Your question popped out to me because it has to deal wit music similar to mine. although I really like that you made your question more narrow by just talking about the structure. In a way it has to deal with my construct because it is mostly like that you would need to know good writing skills to be able to transform a essay structure into a song structure.
Delete-Brendaly Benavides
Let's refine your awesome question, Robert: Why is popular music structured the way it is, and how/why do young people gravitate towards it? Specifically, how/why do Jay-Z, Pharrell, Nikki Minaj, etc. structure their hit songs in order to make them enjoyable? What can students learn about the importance of structure and rhetorical strategies by studying popular music?
DeleteDo people utilize rules to improve their writing?
ReplyDelete-Adeladia Martinez
I like this question because you can interview other students and see how they improve their writing. You can discuss their methods by comparing it to other student's methods and come to a conclusion to determine what rules prove to be most effective.
Delete-Pedro Esquivel
Let's refine your awesome question, Adelaida. Gonna change your construct just a bit and get specific: According to Mike Rose in "Rigid Rules," student writers suffer from "writer's block" due to rules they impose on themselves. Among students in my ENGL 1301 class, what are some of the rules my classmates impose on themselves? What is the impact of these rules on my classmates, and what strategies should they develop in order to overcome these rules?
DeleteWhat is the ideal way to study as an engineering student?
ReplyDelete-Pedro Esquivel
Let's refine your awesome question, Pedro: How/why/where do UTRGV engineering students study, and how effective/ineffective are their current study strategies? What study strategies should these students adopt in order to succeed?
DeleteHow does the transition from high school to college differ based on gender?
ReplyDelete-Oscar Torres
I like this question because you can interview students from both genders and see how the transition affects them differently. You can also compare their experience by looking at what they answer.
Delete-Roberto Munoz
Great topic, but let's refine your awesome question, Oscar: At UTRGV, how/why have male and female students been affected by the high school-to-college transition? What do each of these groups have to say about this transition, and how are they coping with the stresses of college life and academics? Which group is more successful, and why? Which group is unsuccessful, and why?
DeleteWhat are rhetorical strategies that the Dallas Cowboys use?
ReplyDelete-Abraham Arevalo
Let's refine your awesome question, Abraham: What are some of the key rhetorical strategies employed by the Dallas Cowboys when it comes to advertising the team? How/why are the Cowboys so popular and what does the organization do to maintain its popularity?
DeleteHow is communication important in classical art?
ReplyDelete-Anna Gonzalez
I like your research question because classical art is an unified way of communication between different cultures and people, it does not require you to know a certain language to understand what the author is trying to express, classical art is a common platform of communication between people from different parts of the world.
Delete-Yuncheng Gao
Let's refine your awesome question, Anna. Gonna change your construct just a bit: How/why can art be creative, while at the same time rhetorical? What is the difference between these two constructs and how/why can they both impact the way in which a work of art is understood/analyzed? What do artists have to say about these two constructs? How/why should non-artists be aware of the rhetorical elements of a work of art?
DeleteIs procrastination misinterpreted by society at times ?
ReplyDelete- Hipolito Salinas III
I like your question because my construct is procrastination as well and our questions are similar. I think procrastination is misinterpreted at times because some students find it to be a good think while other find it to be a bad thing.
Delete-Marilyn Herrera
Let's refine your awesome question, Hipolito: What are UTRGV students' perceptions of procrastination on campus? How/why do they engage in this behavior, and how/why is procrastination helping/hindering their academic progress? At UTRGV, is procrastination a bad/good thing to engage in?
DeleteCan keeping a journal improve psychological stress? -Jonathan Goris
ReplyDeleteLet's refine your awesome question, Jonathan: At UTRGV, how many students keep personal journals? What are some of the main reasons these students keep journals, and how/why is this activity impacting their academic success?
DeleteHow does coffee help procrastinators stay up late at night to study or do any type of school work?
ReplyDeleteLuis Bonilla
Let's refine your awesome question, Luis. What are some of the main reasons UTRGV students drink coffee on campus? Do males drink more/less than females? What is the significance of these differences in gender? What positive/negative impact does coffee drinking have on UTRGV students?
DeleteHow is being a good student similiar to being a good employee?
ReplyDelete-Anllley Rodriguez
How about this: How do UTRGV students balance academics and employment? What are the major reasons students choose to work while also attending school? Why do other students choose not to work? Who works more/less: males or females? What types of strategies should working students develop in order to succeed both in the work force and in school?
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