how to pick a best research topic?

Picking a Research Topic

How to select or develop a good research topic is an important research question and every researcher and research student face it. mostly the instructor assigns his student research topics but sometimes the supervisor asks you to choose your own research topic.

While choosing the research topic you should focus on the following points.

   brainstorm for ideas

   choose a topic that will enable you to read and understand the literature

   ensure that the topic is manageable and that material is available

   make all your favorite keywords

   be flexible

   define your topic as a focused research question

   research and read more about your topic

   create a thesis statement

while selecting the topic one thing that you need to focus on is that it is not an easy task as you think about it. It must be narrow and focused enough to be interesting, yet broad enough to find adequate information. How your final project look like it plays an important role in the selection of the research topic. Every instructor or supervisor has his or her own way of doing research.

The following steps help you in searching for a good research topic.

v Brainstorm for ideas

In this step think about your society and your likes and dislikes. There are many things you can see but never notice or did not gave any importance. You can use society issue or you can use your own opinion on politician as a research topic. Health, is the second factor you can see in society if you are suffering from any issue or you have opinion about the prevalence of some health issue in your society you can use it as a research topic. You can also see your class is your class is boarding or why some students does not care about certain subject you can also see that some student skip some class you can use it as a factor in your research

v Do background research

If you have many topic of interest but you did not now what to choose then do back ground search. Read summaries about the topic from the other authors. Also study other research topics or papers. Some time you can find more use full information form literature review.

Ø You can see what type of scale that author use in the search

Ø You also know that there are some other variables that may be helpful in your research

Ø You can also see other peoples advantages and cones.

Ø You also get information about how people response.

Ø If the other research is scale development you can use its scale on your own research.

You can internet, libraries and news paper in doing background research of your topic.

v Focus on your topic

You should make your topic manageable. While doing literature review and getting online search you may find a broad amount of data. some of them may be not important or not related to your research topic. some time you are doing research on specific issue of your country then the main focus of you should be the old research on the topic done before. You can not use other countries data to explain that factor more appropriately as you can use the research happen in your country on that topic. If you have any difficulties or questions with focusing your topic, discuss the topic with your instructor, or with a librarian.

v Make list of useful key words

While doing back ground search you can get many useful key words that you can use in your research. You can also get many variables that you can use with your current variable. The keywords also help you in making research statement.

v Be flexible

You should have to always be flexible be with your work. you did not know what are your findings may be the thing you want to prove become disprove or you does not get those values that you want for your study. May be your hypothesis has been rejected. but as we can say that hypothesis is a tentative solution to our problem or a guess it cannot be 100 % right so if it disapprove then try to be flexible and see what can you do now about it. may be the new values become more interesting and you can manage it in good way.

Another thing you have to focus while doing research what research means

 Research comes form 2 words re means again and search means again and again search until you get your findings

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reference

Umflint.edu. (2019). How to Select a Research Topic | University of Michigan-Flint. [online] Available at: https://www.umflint.edu/library/how-select-research-topic [Accessed 9 Feb. 2019].