Knowing what your teacher has assigned is very important -- it focuses your work so you don't waste time.
Find your teacher's assignment and look at it, then answer these questions:
(The blue text refers to requesting book chapters and journal articles through InterLibrary Loan.)
Selecting an appropriate topic is important because you want to do two things:
You want to match what your professor states he / she wants in their assignment,
You want to find a topic that interests you, too.
Here are some thoughts to help you find a topic:
You also want to make sure your topic is not too broad ...
... and also that your topic isn't too narrow, also:
Here are some databases to help you find topics in which you're interested in:
(Look for these databases by name in the Databases A-Z List found on the library's homepage.)
Now your job is to take that research topic / question and break out the big concepts from it, and then pull out specific keywords to use when searching in databases:
The final step is to take those keywords and look for resources in the library catalog (books, ebooks, journals) and in the library databases -- check out the next tab on the left side of this guide to help you do this work.
