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From Topics to Questions:. Booth et al. The Craft of Research Chapter 3:. 3.2 From a Broad Topic to a Focused One (43) . If you can state your topic in four or five words, then it is too broad. You have to narrow it: Examples: Too Board: The history of commercial aviation (five words).

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From Topics to Questions:

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  1. From Topics to Questions: Booth et al. The Craft of Research Chapter 3:

  2. 3.2 From a Broad Topic to a Focused One (43) • If you can state your topic in four or five words, then it is too broad. You have to narrow it: • Examples: • Too Board: • The history of commercial aviation (five words). • Style and youth movements (four words) • More Focused: • The crucial role of the military and the DC-3 in the • development of early commercial aviation. • The critical role of aesthetics in the identity of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the student wing of the civil rights movement.

  3. 3.3 From a Focused Topic to Questions (45) • 1) What are the parts of your topic, how do they relate? • Example: • Style, identity and civil rights • 2) Is it part of a larger story or discussion? • 3) How has the topic changed?

  4. 3.4 From a Merely Interesting Question To Its Wider Significance • Will my question interest other people? To address the • significance and objective of your question conduct the • following experiment: • Step 1:Name the Topic: I am trying to learn about… • I am working on Lincoln’s beliefs about predestination in his early speeches. • Step 2: Add a Question: I Want to Find Out Why… • I am working on Lincoln’s beliefs about predestination in his early speeches because I want to find out • what/where/whether/why/how his belief in destiny influenced his policies…

  5. 3.4 From a Merely Interesting Question To Its Wider Significance • Step 3: Motivate Your Question: Help the Reader Understand • something… (50) • I am working on Lincoln’s beliefs about predestination in his early speeches because I want to find out what/where/whether/why/how his belief in destiny • Influenced his policies…in order to help my readers (and the world) understand how religious beliefs may have influenced his military decisions.

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