Define your research focus by selecting a subtopic you will continue to investigate in subsequent projects

Define your research focus by selecting a subtopic you will continue to investigate in subsequent projects

Narrowing your Research Focus Area

OVERVIEW

The research process can begin by finding broad topics that are interesting to you. Broad research allows you to practice skills by finding research purposes, claims, and perspectives, as well as processing or synthesizing information.

These skills will help you evaluate your research to find a smaller or more manageable research focus within a broad topic. After you have narrowed your broad research to an interesting subtopic, you can concentrate your efforts moving forward in the research process.

You have already begun your research into broad topics by exploring articles in the five topic areas identified in Project 1. Here you will begin to narrow your focus by choosing the three broad topics that are most interesting to you and collecting the research you have done so far on these topics together.

Think about which of these three topics is most interesting to you, or affects your life the most, and choose one. After selecting your topic focus, think about a specific issue within the topic that refines it in a way that makes your research focus smaller or more manageable. You will conclude this process by thinking of why this subtopic might be important to different audiences.

SKILLS & STRATEGIES

This assignment will help you

compile current research and begin a process log

narrow your research focus area

define your research focus by selecting a subtopic you will continue to investigate in subsequent projects

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