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Identifying a Research Area
- Choose a topic within your discipline that you are interested in
- Consider current news and issues related to your discipline
- Identify a gap that exists in the research in your discipline
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
- For example: "What is currently being done to help conserve the endangered Giant Panda population?"
- Keywords: conserve and Giant Panda
Think of related words.
- Conserve: conservation, preservation, protection
- Giant Panda: panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca (scientific name).
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