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BBG 261-276

   Finding a research topic can be stressful for most people. However, in BBG pgs 261-276 they explain how to try and narrow down a topic so that it can be effective in ones writing. It taught me that at first one must generalize a topic at first but then we must ask a specific research question to make our research more specific. If at first the article results are to much one must make there topic even more specific or else there will be to much material to cover. It also works the other way, if your topic is to specific then you must try to broaden your topic so more articles will appear. The BBG also says that one should try to find a topic they enjoy about writing. If someone finds a research topic that they are interested in then it will make writing the paper much easier and the quality of the writing might even be better. These pages also helped me begin to brainstorm for a research topic in P2  as it also talks about different preliminary writing techniques to get your ideas out on paper.

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