Lecturer Profile |
Professor Paul Kei Matsuda is a professor, doctoral supervisor and director of the Second Language Writing Center in the Department of College English, Arizona State, USA. His main research direction is second language writing. He has published more than 50 influential papers in international core journals. As a part-time professor and overseas teacher of Nanjing University, former president of AAAL, founder of the International Seminar on Second Language Writing (SSLW), and editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief and reviewer of several academic journals. |
Lecture Abstract |
Research questions are crucially important to successful research because research is the act of answering those question. Good research questions can give the project a strong focus, guide the methodological decisions, and help organize the findings. In this workshop, the presenter will discuss how to develop and organize research questions successfully. After a discussion of some of the common problems in research questions, he will examine research questions for various studies and evaluate their effectiveness. He will then lead the participants through the process of developing actual research questions for their own research. |
