Use with permission from Monroe Community Narrowing your topic Shelby Bivins, M.Ed. Librarian Frisco High School, Frisco, TX. bivinss@friscoisd.org Use with permission from Monroe Community

Quick Tips for Narrowing your topic Use a Wikipedia-type site for general information on your topic. Choose a topic that will be interesting to your audience. Ask: is my topic still too broad for the length of my paper? What kind of information do I need to do the assignment? Is there a better question I could ask now that I know more? (more on this to come) Use with permission from Monroe Community

Broad to narrow to focused Broad Topic Narrowed Topic Focused Topic Research Question video games video game violence video game violence and children How does violence in video games affect children? eating disorders teens and eating disorders teen peer pressure and bulimia What role, if any, does peer pressure play in the development of bulimia among teens? FISD High School Research Guide

Narrowing your topic worksheet Women’s suffrage Sub-Topics History of women’s suffrage; women’s suffrage United States; prominent women suffragists; strides made in women’s suffrage; Women’s rights; feminism What sub-topics are of most interest to you? Women’s suffrage and present day feminism What new questions do you have about your topic? What strides were made by the early women’s suffrage movement? Are there similarities in early women’s suffrage and current day feminism? Develop a topic statement OR research question What role, if any, did the suffrage movement play in forwarding current day feminism? Used with permission and adapted from Monroe Community College, Professor J. Wilkie

Use with permission from Monroe Community General Search Tips Write down similar search terms. Use with permission from Monroe Community