This document provides guidance on crafting a strong research question and creating an annotated bibliography for an extend essay. It discusses focusing the research question, narrowing a broad topic into a question, and reviewing the question. For an annotated bibliography, it recommends including the authority, audience, purpose, and relevance of each source to help answer the research question. The document emphasizes that an annotated bibliography's most important feature is correctly citing each source using a standard format.

1. Extend Essay Session 2:
Annotated Bibliography &
Crafting Research
Questions
Reviews and Reflections

2. Crafting the Research Question
Research Question
How can you say or tell that you have a good
RESEARCH QUESTION?
FOCUS DIRECTION
A problem you really want to answer or solve

3. Crafting the Research Question
a. Begin with a broad topic, then narrow it down
to one.
The role of broadcast media in the
success of the EDSA 1 People Power
Revolution.
Is the topic broad or narrowed already?

4. Crafting the Research Question
b. Narrowed down topic can be converted into
a question.
Attack the topic by looking at:
- part-whole relationship;
- categories;
- its history;
- use and function

5. Crafting the Research Question
The role of broadcast media in the success of the EDSA 1
People Power Revolution.
How successful was Radio Veritas in influencing the common Filipino to
march in EDSA during the People Power Revolution?
To what extent has Radio Veritas influenced the common Filipino to
march in EDSA during the People Power Revolution.
What approach did we use to craft the RQ?
(part-whole, category, history, use & function)

6. Crafting the Research Question
c. Review your RQ
What / Where / When / Who
questions that scratch the surface
How and Why
questions that explore, inquire, uncover, solve
explain, discuss and discover, week and probe

7. Crafting the Research Question
d. Imagine the relevance of your RQ
I am learning about / exploring on / trying to find out ________________________.
I am learning about / exploring on / trying to find out ________________________
because I want to know why/how _____________________________________.
I am learning about / exploring on / trying to find out _________________________
because I want to know why/how ________________________________________
so that I can have an understanding of / if / how / why /
whether________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________.
Definition
Purpose
Meaning
The Extend Essay is a course requirement. True. But, in a global perspective, it is your initiation to the
Community of Inquiry.
This is your
EXIT pass!

8. Annotated Bibliography: A simple recipe
Authority: Who wrote the information source/material? How credible is/are
the authors?
Audience: Who is it written for? Who are the intended readers of the info
source/material?
Purpose: Why was it written? What is the message the author/s want/s to
communicate to reader/s?
Relevance to your research: How can I use the information of the
source/material? Do the content, concepts and information of the
source/material help in answering my RQ?

9. DO NOT FORGET
The most important feature
of an annotated bibliography
is its bibliographic entry
written in a way that follows a
citation standard.

10. Citation Foundations
AUTHOR/S
TITLE
PUBLISHER / PLACE of
PUBLICATION / URL
COPYRIGHT / DATE of
PUBLICATION
FORMAT of INFO SOURCE
(web, print)