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2. Topics

a. Overview

This unit will help you find an appropriate topic or question for research and demonstrate how that question can be focused to suit the limits of time available, length of assignment, or scope of the problem to be solved.

  • Select an appropriate topic for research
  • Generate questions from a topic
  • Broaden and narrow a question
  • Identify key concepts and vocabularies related to a topic
  • Broaden and narrow concepts and vocabularies related to a topic

 

 


 

 

a. Overview

b. Basic Tips

c. Asking a Question

d. Broaden a Topic

e. Narrow a Topic

f. Keywords & Concepts

g. Vocabulary

 

 

 

 

  

Self-Test | 1 Basics | 2 Topics | 3 Research | 4 Locate | 5 Results | 6 Ethics  

 

 

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