How to Do Research

Choose a Topic

This means you've got to focus and come up with a topic you’re:

1. interested in, and
2. can actually find information about.

Topics are tricky, and can change during the course of your research. Sometimes they change a lot, sometimes a little; it just depends on what information you find.

Choose a topic that interests you. Writing a paper that bores you is the worst!

Make sure you can find some information on it. Also, you need to take care not to pick something too broad. Determining a topic’s scope can be a fine line, and it takes practice.