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Part I: FRAME – Understand your problem

To help you write a good quest, focus on three key characteristics: its type, its scope, and its phrasing of the question. • A good type means that answering the quest yields potential solutions; it doesn’t just lead to more analysis. To help you do so, start your quest with a ‘how’ (instead of why , who , what, or where ). • A good scope means that the quest is neither too narrow nor too broad. • Finally, good phrasing means that the quest is self-contained and easily understandable even by a novice when reading it once. Out of these three characteristics, finding a good scope for your quest can be particularly challenging. Not convinced? Let’s see. What quest do you think that our friend Charles, in the drawing below, has set for himself? You may want to pause for a minute and write it down. Writing it down is actually important, because it helps you be accountable, so we strongly advise you to take the extra seconds to do it!

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