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Guidelines in Selecting A Research Topic

This document provides guidelines for selecting a research topic. It recommends choosing a topic that interests you and brainstorming using questions about current events, sciences, health, humanities, or problems affecting society. Researchers should read general background information to understand all issues related to potential topics and see how ideas relate. The topic then needs to be narrowed to something manageable by limiting approach, scope, or time. Useful keywords should be identified to widen search capabilities. Researchers should be flexible as the topic may change and get feedback from others. When considering a topic, researchers should think about why it interests them, who provides information on it, what major questions it involves, where it is important, and when it is important.

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Guidelines in Selecting A Research Topic

This document provides guidelines for selecting a research topic. It recommends choosing a topic that interests you and brainstorming using questions about current events, sciences, health, humanities, or problems affecting society. Researchers should read general background information to understand all issues related to potential topics and see how ideas relate. The topic then needs to be narrowed to something manageable by limiting approach, scope, or time. Useful keywords should be identified to widen search capabilities. Researchers should be flexible as the topic may change and get feedback from others. When considering a topic, researchers should think about why it interests them, who provides information on it, what major questions it involves, where it is important, and when it is important.

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Guidelines in

Selecting A
Research Topic
Curie 8 Group 5
1. Brainstorm for
ideas
• Choose a topic that interests
you. The research process is
more relevant if you care
about your topic.
• Use the following questions to
help generate topic ideas:
 Are you interested in current
events or the sciences?
 Are you interested in health or
medicine?
1. Brainstorm for
ideas
Are you interested in
Humanities; art, literature or
music?
Are you interested in solving
a problem that affects society
or personal daily living?
Are you simply curious about
a specific topic?
2. Read General
Background Information
• Ideas can come from issues
and subjects covered in
course readings and lectures
• Background Information can
help you prepare for further
research by explaining all the
issues related to your topic,
especially when you're
investigating a field that's
unfamiliar to you.
2. Read General
Background Information
• Reading broad summaries
enable one to get an overview
of the topic and see how the
idea relates to broader,
narrower and related issues.
• Refer to books such as
encyclopedias, journals,
newspaper articles and also
the internet.
3. Narrow the topic into
something manageable
• If your topic is too broad, you
will find too much information
and not be able to focus.
• Narrow the topic’s scope by:
 Limiting the topic to a
particular approach to the
issue
 Considering only one piece of
the subject
3. Narrow the topic into
something manageable

 Limiting the time it takes to


accomplish

• Background reading can help


you choose and limit the scope
of your topic.
4. Make a list of useful
keywords
• Look for words that best
describe your topic
• Find broader and narrower
terms, synonyms, key
concepts for keywords to
widen your search capabilities
• Take note of these words and
use them later when
searching databases and
catalogs
4. Be flexible
• Listen to ideas of other co-
researchers because it is likely
that the title of the research will
change over time
• You may find too much and
need to narrow your focus, or
too little and need to broaden
your focus.
5. Thinking of the 5 W’s
• WHY did you choose the
topic? What interests you
about it?
• WHO are the information
providers on this topic? Who
is affected by the topic?
5. Thinking of the 5 W’s
• WHAT are the major
questions for this topic? What
are the range of issues and
viewpoints to consider?
• WHERE is your topic
important
• WHEN is your topic
important?
References:
https://libguides.mit.edu/select-topic
https://www.umflint.edu/library/how-select-research-topic
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/quickguides
https://www.slideshare.net/walshandj/choosing-a-research-
topic

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