Your classmate Maria is having a difficult time with choosing a topic for her paper in her psychology course. How should she get started? Be sure to provide strategies that will help her choose a well-defined topic
What will be an ideal response?
I would tell Maria that choosing topic is an important step that can be a time consuming task, but it's a worthwhile investment. A good way to get started is to look through the table of contents in your textbook or do a Google search to identify ways to narrow your topic. Broad sources like encyclopedias, while not high level enough for obtaining the core information for the paper, are great resources for topic selection. Once Maria identifies a general topic area, she will need to make sure that it is defined and focused. She can use library database features such as category suggestions and keywords for this purpose. She may also want to consider focusing on a specific population or aspect of the topic. Maria should also remember that the librarians or professors on campus are great resources to help with this task.
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