The Strategic implications for the United States against China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The goal of this assignment is to set you up for success in designing research inquiries moving forward.
1. Start your assignment with an introductory paragraph about your research topic and why it is of interest and a research “puzzle.”
Appropriately Complex and Focused: To what extent has Vladimir Putin been motivated by a drive for power compared to his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, and how has Putin’s personal ambitions shaped Russia’s relations with the United States?
2. Next, provide a purpose statement that conveys your intentions about what you hope to produce.
Your purpose statement should demonstrate what you are hoping to find out, and also explain what you want your readers to understand (motivation or argument of the research).
3. Pull out the dependent (DV) and independent variable(s) (IV) that you are interesting it looking at. Discuss ideas for how you might go about measuring the impact that the IV as on the DV.
Focus on one or two specific variables (and discuss how they are defined), otherwise, your research will quickly spin out of control as you will not have the capacity to effectively address the relationship between all the variables.
The PRS Group offers a good list of variables they use in their research. This list is just an example of variables to show you what a variable might look like and how it might be defined.
