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Capstone #2 – Choosing a Main Inquiry Question and Sub Questions

Capstone is moving on! We’re on to picking our main inquiry question and 5-6 sub questions. I thought it would be really easy, but… it was very challenging.

 

After a lot of thinking , I decided to switch topics. I did this  because I didn’t know how much information I would be able to find during the span of 7-8 weeks on my first topic, which was…. I thought about what else I was interested in and interior design and scoliosis were my top choices. Then, I finally picked interior design. I chose interior design over scoliosis because I was more interested in it and I had an idea of a site visit and interview.  I felt way more confident in the project with interior designing because of that.

 

It came time to create a main inquiry question. It was way harder than I thought it would be. It can’t just be a question like“What is interior designing?” because that would be too simple. Then I thought, “What is the process of designing a space?” and that wasn’t even enough. I turned it in and I was still told that I needed to extend that and add an “and’’ to the end of the sentence. Then finally, after all of that I came up with “What’s the process behind designing a space and what are the different roles individuals have?” It seemed right because I fully understood the question and it seemed like I could get enough information to answer it.

 

But it still didn’t end there. I still had to make 5 or 6 sub questions. The sub questions are created to help answer your main inquiry question. For example, for my question, “What’s the process behind designing a space and what are the different roles individuals have?” a sub question might be “What are the most important roles of designing a space,” as that would help me answer part of my question.

 

Overall, creating the questions are much harder than they seem.