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Every scientific study starts by a
question. Your curiosity may make you wonder about different things and
may create the urge to investigate, study and experiment in order to
discover the answer.
Such question may be phrased in
different forms. You may call it a problem statement, you may call it a
question or you may call it a purpose.
For example you may be wondering why so
much algae forms in your pool and want to know what cause it or how can
it be prevented.
As a problem statement you may write:
Every few weeks algae
forms in my pool and cause bad odor and unpleasant appearance.
As a question you may write any of the
following:
What conditions affect
the growth of algae in fresh water?
What chemicals can stop
the growth of algae in fresh water?
As a purpose you may write:
I am trying to find out
what conditions affect the growth of algae.
or
The purpose of this
project is to find out what conditions affect the growth of algae.
As you see the problem statement, the
question and the purpose are different ways of expressing the initial
source of your project idea and what you are going to do about it. There
are no limits on the number of ways you may write your problem
statement, question or purpose of your project.
If you want to be brief, just the
question or just the purpose is enough. If you want to write the
details, you may start from the history of the problem, your initial
observations, what you are wondering about (question) and what you are
going to do about it (purpose).
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