Selection a suitable topic - The research question

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Rudestam, Kjell Erik. (2001). Surviving your Dissertation. A comprehensive Guide to Content and Process. Second edition. Sage Publications, Inc. USA.
Chapter 2: Selection a suitable topic
Besides providing useful hints on how to select a topic, it is targeted the idea of formulating a research question.
Quotes:

• Researchable questions almost invariably involve the relationship between two or more variables, phenomena, concepts, or ideas (…) even the presence of two variables is apt to be limiting and, oftentimes it is only when a third “connecting” variable is invoked that an idea becomes researchable. P12
• Example … I am interested in how the elderly are perceived by a younger generation… (So what?) (with a third variable) I wonder how specific legislation designed in how the elderly are viewed? (Cf. P12)
• Also referred as Mediating variable
• Mediator (how) and moderator (when).

Cf. Table 2.3 on page 20. Outline of issues for a Student Researcher to Comple in the Development of the Research Proposal.
Review of the literature
The classic, definitive or most influential pieces of research in this area are:
The journals that specialize in the kind of research are
The bodies of research to which I which I wish to add is
The experts in the field of my research are:
Statement of the Problem
The intellectual problem I may help solve through this research are
The moral I may help alleviate through this research is
Method
The method I propose to use to answer my question is
An alternative way to do it would be
Three important research studies that have been carried out using the method I propose are
Possible weakness of this method are
The skills I will need to use this methods are
I propose to acquire these skills by.
Alberto Ramirez Martinell