Formulating Research Questions Assignment

Dr. Philip N. Howard

Department of Communication

University of Washington

Write 500 words about a research question and hypotheses you find interesting. Follow each step in the exercise Designing Social Science Communication Research. In a major research project, the last item number 6 in Part I is particularly important. But for this exercise, do not worry about connecting your questions, hypotheses, variables or indicators to a larger theoretical framework. Just make sure your causal connections are intuitive and sensible, and put most of your effort into following steps 1 to 5 in Part I and Part II, with clear and specific language. This assignment is due before class on the 21^st of January.

**Note 20/1/04: All of these 500 word essays for this class should be formatted in paragraphs with complete sentences.