• What will you be analyzing and how?
  • What do you hope to find out in the course of your research?
  • What theoretical frameworks might you be using?
  • What debates are you seeking to engage with? 
  • What will your primary material be? (i.e. what will you be analyzing – a particular policy document from a local government, for example?)
  • What will your key secondary sources be? (who are some of the scholars that will be help you make your argument?)