Now that you have built your foundation with background information, you can begin to narrow, or refine, your topic.
Use this page to discover ways you can take a broad idea and make it a targeted research question. This will help you start to structure your argument and decide on the angle you want to take with your paper.
Describe and Develop Your Topic
Try filling in the blanks in the following sentence, as much as you can:
I want to research ___(what/who)___
and ___(what/who)___
in ___(where)___
during ___(when)___
because ___(why)___.