question

(noun)

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

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Examples of question in the following topics:

  • Questioning Vignette

    • Some of the students have very few questions that go beyond basic fact questions or yes?
    • answer questions.
    • Each group works to come up with three questions in each of the questioning categories.
    • Once the questions are completed, the groups swap questions and answer them to model question formation and to check their understanding of the reading passage.
    • One pig is asking a fact question: ?

  • Questions and Answers

    • While this method communicates the message, it can often leave the reader with unanswered questions.
    • The question and answer format is often used to provide better or more responses to the business communication.
    • The question and answer format (Q & A) presents a series of questions and answers that provides all the pertinent information that the reader needs.
    • The writer essentially asks and answers the question.
    • Describe the purpose of the question and answer (Q&A) format in business writing

  • Conducting Polls

    • Steps to conduct a poll effectively including identifying a sample, evaluating poll questions, and selecting a question and response mode.
    • Prior previous questions may bias later questions.
    • Thus, if the respondent refuses to answer these questions, the research questions will have already been answered.
    • Questions should flow logically from one to the next, from the more general to the more specific, from the least sensitive to the most sensitive, from factual and behavioral questions to attitudinal and opinion questions, from unaided to aided questions.
    • In the last stage demographic questions are asked.

  • Conducting a Q&A Session

    • Make sure you understand the question.
    • Don't let the questions move you off topic.
    • Look at the questioner as you answer the question, but still present the answer to the whole audience.
    • If the questioner starts to give a counter speech, politely interrupt and ask for his or her question.
    • You may also arrange an "open" question period prior to the speech in order to solicit relevant questions.

  • Q&A Considerations in Non-Academic Environments

    • A speaker cannot predict every question, but he or she can identify likely questions and prepare responses in advance.
    • Sometimes, basic questions are actually the hardest questions to answer.
    • Begin by explaining the question in layman's terms.
    • To take a moment to think about a question, stall with a phrase like, "That's an interesting question. " Be careful with this tactic, though—if the speaker praises one question too much, the other audience members may feel insulted if he or she does not give their questions equal praise.
    • There is no such thing as a bad question.

  • Ending Punctuation

    • The question mark (?)
    • Indirect questions are designed to ask for information without actually asking a question.
    • (indirect question)
    • Question marks come at the end of sentences that make a request or ask a direct question.
    • (declarative sentence with a direct question)

  • Chapter Questions

    • Please use demand and supply analysis to answer this question.
    • Please use demand and supply analysis to answer this question.
    • Please use demand and supply analysis to answer this question.
    • Please use demand and supply analysis to answer this question.

  • Turning Your Topic Into a Question

    • A problem statement needs a question to solve, so part of narrowing your topic is transforming it from a statement into a specific question.
    • Your question is also not a fully articulated problem statement.
    • One of those can become your question.
    • The question, "How does Hamlet lay out criteria for ‘successful' revenge?
    • Brainstorming can be a good way to help develop a research question

  • Choosing Clear Words and Phrasing

    • What question does your speech address?
    • My speech isn't even answering a question.
    • Here's the thing: your speech actually is answering a question, that question being, "Why should you invest in my business?
    • From there, list step-by-step how you plan to address that question.
    • When you delimited your question, were there any key words used in that question?

  • Explanation of Questioning

    • Clark's students have now added the skill of self-questioning to their toolbox of reading strategies.
    • The students have had practice in creating and answering each of the three types of questions.