Questions

(see Questions|Phase C)

Pyramid of Questions

Compile a "pyramid of questions" in a part of your workbook separate from the freewriting, personal reflections, and other mess. "Pyramid" because later questions build on earlier ones. In the list would go the initial questions (general & specific) for your projects, successive variants of your Governing Question, questions that arose during library research, possible questions to ask informants, and so on. These questions could be crossed out when no longer central to your evolving project and checked when satisfactorily addressed.

Variant:

Ten Questions

State your topic. Write down 10 questions within that topic. Circle two that interest you the most. Take these two and list 10 questions under each. Circle two that interest you the most. Now define/refine the Governing Question that conveys what you need to research (and what you no longer need to research)