ASKING QUESTIONS
Introduction
(2 pages)

Where do questions
come from?
(2 pages)

Background & foreground
questions
(4 pages)
Four part question (6 pages)
Types of question (7 pages)
Types of study (6 pages)
Summary

 

Background and Foreground questions

Typically, the more we know about a subject the less "background" questions we ask. When we are new to a subject, a high proportion of our questions are background questions; as we get more experienced, most of them are foreground questions.

Some other examples of background and foreground questions:

Background questions:

Foreground questions:

 

This page updated on 25/11/05

 

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