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Research question

Once the topic of the essay has been decided, the next step is to think of a specific research question. This is a very important step. If you don't have a good research question, you can't write a good essay. So the question is: How do you know if the research question is any good or not? It's not easy, but you don't have to stick to the one you first think of. After doing some initial experiments, you may decide to...

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