Narrow Your Topic
When the scope of your topic is too big, it's hard to dig through the huge volume of information available to find something relevant. Most scholarly research examines fairly narrow topics and looks at relationships between concepts. For example, sleep habits is a pretty broad topic, but looking at the relationship between sleep habits and academic success might be a more manageable topic.
There are many ways to narrow a topic that is too broad. Let's use sleep as an example:
- "sleep habits" and memory (what)
- "sleep habits" and "academic achievement" (what)
- "sleep habits" and "college students" (who)
- "sleep habits" and the United States (where)
Use 2 or 3 of these concepts develop a research question on the topic of sleep habits
Is academic success among college students affect by their sleep habits?
