There are two main types of research: Qualitative research and Quantitative research. Your research question will be based on the type of research you want to conduct and the type of data collection.
The first step in designing research involves identifying a gap and creating a focused research question.
Below is a list of common research questions that can be used in a dissertation. How research question can be created for a specific problem and a related data collection ?
I am not sure that I would accept all of these as research questions. For starters, I see a hierarchy and redundancy there:
- Both your explanatory and evaluation questions are causal questions and thus explanatory. This is just hidden by the fact that "the impact of C" does not get a capital letter. Once you find the impact and name it "D", the question can be phrased (and answered) as an explanatory question.
- The exploratory questions you provide are also causal questions. I don't see how a strong distinction can be made between "What are the causes for C?" and "What factors affect C#s rate of growth?". The other one is obvious.
- The descriptive, comparative and correlational questions must be answered anyway if you want to answer a causal question, in your terms an exploratory, explanatory or evaluation question. They can be considered as necessary steps to answering these causal questions. I advise PhD students against reducing their PhD to these 'lesser questions'.
- I am not sure that your action-based question is a research question at all.
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