Constructing a Research Question

• How questions: How were anti-aircraft guns used in the defense of London through the Blitz?
   
• Why questions: Why were anti-aircraft guns initially limited in their ability to defend London during the Blitz?
   
• What questions: What were the initial and later strategies for deploying anti-aircraft guns during the Blitz of London?

As you continue to work, you might find yourself combining some of these into a single question. For example, “What changes were made in the technology and deployment of anti-aircraft guns during the Blitz that allowed them to be used more effectively as the Blitz wore on?”

Notice that the question above allows you to go deep with a single, limited topic and master some important information in one area of weapons and those weapons’ use in WWII. By the time you're finished writing this paper, you'll be a semi-expert on the Blitz of London and the use of anti-aircraft guns by the British during that period.