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Introduction

This unit will help you find an appropriate topic or question for research and demonstrate how to focus the question to match the time available, assignment length, and the question to be answered.

Objectives

  • Select an appropriate topic for your research
  • Generate questions from your topic
  • Broaden and narrow those questions
  • Identify the main ideas and keywords related to your topic
  • Broaden and narrow the main ideas and keywords related to your topic

Topics Sections

     1. Topics

2. Basic Pointers
3. Generating Questions
     -    Brainmapping Ex.
4. Broadening Questions
5. Narrowing Questions
6. Selecting Keywords
7. Vocabulary

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