Selecting and Narrowing Topics

Five Requirements: Technical

1. Be your own work

2.  MLA Formatting

3. 10 or more credible sources

4. 3,000 or more words

5. Employ parenthetical citations

Five Criteria: Success

1. Topic you like

2. Don’t be biased with research

3. Make the purpose clear

4. Make a project timeline

5. Brainstorm, looping, free writing, and clustering

Research questions:

1.       Water Pollution:

·         Where is pollution the worst?

·         How does water pollution effect humans/animals?

·         What causes water pollution?

·         Why does this topic matter?

·         What could we do to change the current situation?

2.       Body Censorship:

·         How is this defined?

·         Who does this effect and how?

·         What does the media say about this?

·         Why should anyone draw attention to this?

·         What exactly is wrong with this practice?

3.       Growing up in America?

·         How does American Childhood compare to elsewhere?

·         Is this a good or bad thing?

·         What are some pros and cons?

·         What should and shouldn't change, if anything?

·         Who does this effect and what are the consequences of said effect?