A question that can fail
Name the object, the population or corpus, the time window, the comparison or mechanism, and the evidence that could actually be gathered. Then write one sentence a skeptical reader could test. If no finding could embarrass the question, it is still a slogan. PHD.CC does not award a doctoral degree.
Narrowing sequence
Theme becomes object. Object becomes sentence. Sentence gets a planned attack: an observation that would force a rewrite. Student research mentoring spends more time on this sentence than on a title slide.
After the sentence
Literature is read with a job: what is known, what is contested, what a student-scale method can add without closing a field. Continue to literature review when the sentence can lose.
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