Starting Your Project:
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1. Identifying Topic |
4. Brainstorm Keywords |
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2. Narrow Topic |
5. Evaluate and Revise |
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3. Ask Questions |
Identifying Topic:
- Choosing a Strong Research Topic (About.com)
- North Carolina State University: Define Your Research Topic
Narrowing Topic:
Ask Questions:
- Purdue University: Pre-Writing: General Questions
- Cambridge Rindge Latin School: Brainstorming Research Questions
- Worksheet for Brainstorming Research Questions
- Using Sub-Topic Headings to Create and Organize Questions
- Worksheet for Generating Sub-Topic Heading Questions
- Using a Topic to Generate Questions
Brainstorming Keywords:
- "Preparing Keywords to Optimize Your Search" Worksheet
- Creating a Search Strategy - University of South Carolina - Beaufort
Evaluate and Revise:
Ask Yourself the Following Questions. If your Answer to any of them is "no," go back and revise until you can answer
them all with a "yes."
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- Have you selected a topic that is interesting to you and meets the requirements of the assignment?
- Have you narrowed your topic down or broadened it out so that the research is manageable and your results will fit into the required assignment length?
- Have you created a list of questions that you hope you can answer with your research?
- From those questions have you created a list of keywords and phrases, as well as synonyms of those keywords to help you begin your research?