Step 1: Identifying and Limiting Your Research Topic

Module 2: Action Research Question & Literature Review


Limiting Your Research Topic

Luke Duesbery and Todd Twyman (2020) offer the following practical suggestions for helping action researchers limit their research topic: Reflect, Be Specific, and Discover the Research Question.

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Limiting Your Research Topic

The following three slides provide a brief overview and an example for each of the suggestions:

Once researchers have limited their research topic there is a tendency to want to proceed directly to formulating an action research question.

However, before doing this it is important to gather preliminary information on your research topic.

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