- 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?)