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Research Process
These pages offer an introduction to the research process
at a very general level.
Home
Finding a
Research Topic
Brainstorming
Explore
Google
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Explore Web
Resources
Explore
Background
Information
Explore
Books
Explore
Scholarly
Articles
Determining
Information
Needs
Scholarly
Research
Finding a Research Topic
Which step of the research process takes the most time?
A. Finding a topic
B. Researching a topic
C. Both
How did you answer the above question? Do you spend most of your
efforts actually researching a topic, or do you spend a lot of time and
energy finding a topic? Ideally, you’ll want to spend fairly equal
amounts of effort on both. Finding an appropriate and manageable
topic can sometimes be just as hard as researching a topic.
A good research topic will have a body of related research which is
accessible and manageable. Identifying a topic with these
characteristics at the beginning of the research process will ultimately
save you time.