Finding and Exploring Your Topic

How do you decide on a topic for a research project? We will explore several strategies and tools to help you decide on a research topic and question for the Final Project in this course.

Choose any topic to explore now for the modules and assignments in the course, and you can always change it later for the final project. You can even use a topic you have for a research project in another course.  

Here are the steps we will go through:

1. 1.  Factors To Consider
   2.  Strategies for Finding Open-Topic Research Papers
   3.  Understanding & Exploring Your Topic
   4.  Narrowing or Broadening Your Topic
   5.  Refining and Revising Your Topic
   6.  For Further Consideration: Finding & Exploring Your Topic Research Guide