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ENG303B_02_02_Student_Guide.docxEnglish | Student Guide | Choose a Research Topic
Student Guide
Choose a Research Topic
Use this guide as you work through your lesson. The activity titles in this guide match the activity titles in the lesson. Let’s get started!
Lesson Introduction: Choose a Research Topic
In this lesson, you will choose a topic for your research paper. To accomplish this task, you will brainstorm ideas, pick one of them, and decide whether or not the topic is appropriate for the assignment. If the topic is too broad, you will narrow it.
Lesson Goals
Read the goals for this lesson.
Brainstorm and select a topic for your research paper.
Learn: Prewriting: Brainstorming
Follow the online instructions to complete the activity.
Learn: Brainstorming Topics
Use the on-screen guidance to help answer these questions. Then use your answers to develop a list of possible topics.
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Learn: Choosing a Research Topic
Reread your list of possible topics. Underline the ones that look most interesting.
Do a quick online search of your favorites.
Is there enough information about the topic for a research paper?
If not, try another topic.
My choice of topic is
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Learn: Narrowing a Topic
Answer the chain of questions. There is no set number of questions you need to answer. You may find that you only need to ask the topic-narrowing question once—or not at all. Or you may need to ask it more than three times. (Add new lines if that is the case.) The number of levels doesn’t matter. What matters is that you end up with a good topic.
When you think you have arrived at a level that is specific enough to make a workable topic, draw a star beside the topic. This is the topic that your teacher will approve or not.
My broad topic area:
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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What more in particular would I like to know about that topic?
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