a brief question that helps direct your efforts to collect, critically read, and evaluate your sources

a statement of what queries the project will seek to answer

A question that reframes all of the descriptions of points from the readers' or consumers' perspective.

research question acts as the guiding force behind the experiment. It is the broad question that the experiment is supposed to answer. The research question poses the problem of the relationship between the objective(s) and the purpose, between the specific experimental procedure and why you are doing that procedure in the first place.

A specific question that guides the research process

The question a researcher asks that guides his or her inquiry into a topic