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| Many Type I questions are very hard to answer. What is the weight of Saturn? How many exoplanets are there? Yet just because people search for the answer does not mean that the answer is the goal. The answer changes the way we see things, and then we get into the real questions. Why are there so few Earth-like exoplanets? Why do Earth-like exoplanets, like Earth, have life? | Many Type I questions are very hard to answer. What is the weight of Saturn? How many exoplanets are there? Yet just because people search for the answer does not mean that the answer is the goal. The answer changes the way we see things, and then we get into the real questions. Why are there so few Earth-like exoplanets? Why do Earth-like exoplanets, like Earth, have life? | ||
| - | In a research paper, you always want to ask a question of Type III. How can you tell? A Type III question has more than one possible answer, but some answers are better than others. The answer to a Type III research question is a thesis statement, or a claim. More on that later... But as you probably know, you have to argue for a thesis statement. You support a thesis statement with reasoning and evidence because there is more than one possible answer, but you want to show that some answers are better than others. Develop a research question on your topic, and then try to think of all the possible thesis statements one could put forward as answers. | + | In a research paper, you always want to ask a question of Type III. How can you tell? A Type III question has more than one possible answer, but some answers are better than others. The answer to a Type III research question is a thesis statement, or a claim. More on that later... But as you probably know, you have to argue for a thesis statement. You support a thesis statement with reasoning and evidence because there is more than one possible answer, but you want to show that some answers are better than others. Develop a research question on your topic, and then try to think of [[Stating a thesis|all the possible thesis statements]] one could put forward as answers. |
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