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Choosing and Focusing a Topic
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Develop Research Questions

The final step in choosing and focusing a research topic or project is to develop your research questions. The information found during your overview research and the formulation of your working thesis statement or other guiding principle will help you identify the questions that need to be addressed by your research.

Developing this list of questions will organize your research and prevent you from gathering non-essential information. Ask yourself the following questions:

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Contents
Introduction
Identify Research Ideas
Develop Overview
Organize Research & Write Topic Statement
Narrow or Broaden Topic
Develop Thesis
Develop Questions
End of Module
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