Narrowing Your Topic -
Or What is a Research Question anyway?

Once you know some background information, you can start to identify your question or problem that you want to research.

You know what your topic is, and you have even read up on it to get some basic information. That doesn't mean that you done with your topic selection.

When you do college level research, you are expected to provide more then a paper about something - you are expected to provide a paper that proves something.

So take your topic that you have researched, and ask a question.

Phrasing the question can often be one of the most difficult parts of research and writing, and the question might change as research developed and new information is found (or not found, as the case may be). If you are having problems, visit some of the sites below for more help:

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