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Research Assignment Success: Choosing & Developing Topics

This guide provides instructional videos and tutorials for different aspects of the research process, strategies and tips for success, and information about academic support resources.

Developing a Research Focus

The following tutorial covers different strategies for developing an appropriate and interesting research focus.(from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):

How to Narrow Your Topic

The following video provides strategies for narrowing a topic (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):

Research Questions

The video below offers some tips for creating good, open-ended research questions to help guide your research:

Thesis Statements

The following video outlines ways to construct a strong thesis statement (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):