Conceptualizing the Research Questions

• It is challenging to write the research questions, especially if the researcher's training has been in quantitative research.
• One cannot write qualitative research question in the same manner as writing the research objectives in quantitative study. REMEMBER, there are no variables in a qualitative study.
• It is not easy to write the research questions if one is not clear with the qualitative study's central phenomenon.
• The research knows the research questions best instead of the adviser or an external person or consultant.
• Purpose Statement

  The purpose statement points out the overall goal or intent of a study (Creswell, 2014).
• Purpose Statement

  The purpose statement can be an independent section in the opening chapter or it can be part of the background of the study that highlights the study as a response to a problematic situation.
• Purpose Statement

  The purpose statement is declarative, while the central or gran-tour question rephrases a purpose statement.
• Central Phenomenon or Central Idea

  The central phenomenon is the core idea that the researcher explores in a qualitative study (Creswell, 2014).
• Central Phenomenon or Central Idea

  The purpose statement and grand tour question state the central phenomenon.
• Central Phenomenon or Central Idea

  Before crafting the research protocols, the researcher subdivides the grand tour question into sub-questions, which become the inquiry parameters.
• It is challenging to create interview questions from nothing.
• Interview questions flow from the sub-questions.
• Elements of a good purpose statement

  • Use keywords such as purpose, aim, goal, intent, and objective.
  • Use the appropriate verb tense.
  • A proposal uses future tense, and completed study uses the past tense. For an active voice, use the present tense.
  • Be straightforward with the statement.
• Elements of a good purpose statement

  • Mention the qualitative research approach.
  • Use the appropriate action verb what the qualitative study seeks to accomplish (e.g. understand, describe, and explore)
  • Specify the core idea you want to study.
  • Specify the participants and if possible the research site of the study.
  • Define the central phenomenon, if necessary, to make it more understandable to the readers.
• Purpose Statement

  • This ethnographic study aims to describe the food preparation practices of Matigsalug female elders in San Fernando, Bukidnon.
• Purpose Statement

  • This systematic grounded theory research seeks to generate a theory about the coming out process of transgender women educators of a Catholic University in Davao City.
• Purpose Statement

  • This descriptive phenomenological study describes the adjustment of selected rice farmers as they shifted to organic farming technologies in Tupi, South Cotabato.
• Grand Tour Question

  Qualitative research asks questions rather than tests hypotheses.
• Grand Tour Question

  The grand tour question is the overarching question of a qualitative study. It is the broadcast question (Creswell, 2014).
• Grand Tour Question

  It is the interrogative statement version of the purpose statement.
• Grand Tour Question

  It begins with a how or what question.
• If a grand tour question begins with a WHY, the grand tour question denotes that the motivation is to know the CAUSE of something.
• Grand Tour Question

  The grand tour question must mention the core phenomenon first, followed by the participants, and then the site of the study (Creswell, 2014).
• Grand Tour Question

  The grand tour question is brief and straightforward.
• Grand Tour Question

  • What are the food practices of the elderly Matigsalug women in San Fernando, Bukidnon?
• Grand Tour Question

  • How does the coming out process transpire among transgender women educators of Catholic Universities in Davao City?
• Purpose Statement

  • This ethnographic study will describe the skincare practices of female Korean celebrities of YG Entertainment.
• Grand Tour Question

  • What are the skincare practices of female Korean celebrities of YG entertainment?
• Sub-Question

  • What are the concepts of female Korean celebrities of skincare?
  • How does a talent agency promote skincare among its female talents?
• Sub-Question

  • How do female Korean celebrities manage their skincare practices in their daily routines?
  • How does being a Korean celebrity make skincare easier or difficult?