UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOS DE CALDAS FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS Y EDUCACIN LICENCIATURA EN EDUCACIN BSICA CON NFASIS EN INGLS, LENG.

EXTRANJERA TEMA: FORMULATING OUR RESEARCH PURPOSES: PROBLEMS, QUESTIONS, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES NOMBRE: FABIO ANDRS CRUZ ARVALO CDIGO: 20081165017

Start a research process is not easy; we have to identify different kind of aspects in order to develop a good investigation. For example, in the research purposes we have to identify the internal and external dimension. The reflexive process considering our research problem, question, aim and objectives make reference to the internal process, but in the other hand we have moving between considering our overall research purposes and engaging in the tasks in consulting relevant guiding and informing sources, and so on. But is not enough just with contemplate the different dimensions of the research, but also is necessary to transform concrete aspects about the investigation, and read so much about that to clarify some aspects for example, in a literature review we can correct or redefine our research question, also we can analyze is my research question so long? is not delimited? Because in many cases the whole investigation fails for this little but vital particle of the research: the research question. If we do not have for example a delimited research question, our investigation is going to be so, so, so big, our life is not going to be enough to develop all the investigation. Or the question maybe could be so general, then, we can fall in ambiguity problems. There are also another kind of problems as the yes/no questions, generally in most of the cases are not viable because you can answer the whole investigation in just one line.

Likewise in the research problem we have to contemplate the existential matter and the theory of the knowledge: epistemological aspects. Also what kind of investigation I am going to develop? Qualitative, quantitative, the instruments, the tools, what is my state of the art, etc. But finally is relevant to say that ever in the development of the research, the questions always change, reading another kind of things, redefining objectives, structuring aims, checking again the purposes, etc. But all the success of the investigation is base on the love of the researcher for the research and the research theme.