HW: Posing Inquiry Questions

For each topic/issue on your Surfacing Issues Tool, there are a wide variety of questions to be asked! Consider what YOU find interesting and what you would like to know more about as you are generating questions. For tonight's HW, you will focus on generating some inquiry questions.

You must come up with 5 inquiry questions for at least two issues/topics. Check out the guidelines and model below for assistance.

Generating Questions
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a text that helps generate potential topics and issues that can drive the research process. Issues and topics that are in the text will be used to pose inquiry questions. These inquiry questions will help you discover potential areas of investigation within a research topic. When generating inquiry questions, it is a good idea to brainstorm as many as possible before selecting and refining the richest ones. Here are several to help you get started:

• How is the topic defined? 
• What are its major aspects?  
• Where did it originate?  
• What are its causes and implications?  
• What is its history?  
• What other topics/issues is it connected to or associated with?  
• What are its important places, things, people, and experts?