Finding a Topic, Part 2

Browse Sources for Topics

In addition to using some brainstorming strategies, you can also look through sources to browse for ideas. Here are some good places online that you can browse:

Finding Topics of the Appropriate Scope

When you choose a topic, you should avoid having a topic that is so broad that your assignment becomes unmanageable or so narrow that you can’t meet the required assignment length.

At first, you may choose a broad topic. But as you continue to think about it, consider ways that you can narrow your topic to a manageable scope. For example, if you are interested in researching animals or space exploration, you can use a step-by-step process to narrow your topic, as demonstrated below.

Animals to rights to farming practices. Space exploration to the future of exploration to role of the private sector.