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Choose a Research Topic

When I have to choose a topic on my own,

I go ahead and I look at current events. I see what’s a more popular trending topic

at the time. And if there’s something in there

that really interests me,

then I’ll go ahead and pick one of those. I usually will find the thing,
something that interests me the most. And then I’ll find something that has

the most resources available. I usually pick something that uh…

that I want to learn about. I always start in Google.

You know, the general idea.
And you can narrow it down from there. Or, start with the article databases online. And you have your general idea.

Then you can start

to narrow it down to the specifics. I just think for a little while

and daydream. And whatever is the most interesting thing that comes up;

that’s what I go for. I try to um, write on topics that

are actually, genuinely interesting to me. Not just the things that have

the most information about ‘em, because…everybody
has already discussed that. If your instructor does not give you

a list of topics to choose from, um… then I would come to the library

and talk to a reference librarian

to talk about possible topics. Or even the Learning Center

is a good resource for that. Without a topic to choose from,

I do have a harder time. I usually like to talk to my instructor
about it anyway. And just kind a play off of each other.
See what we can kind of figure out

that I might be interested in. Look at the broad topic

and then, I would try to find which subtopic

has the most information on it. And then, I would go off of that. Do something that you’re interested in.

You put more effort into it and your results

typically are a little bit better.