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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

Developing a Research Focus

This tutorial provides techniques that for developing an appropriate, manageable, and interesting research focus. It covers following assignment guidelines, pre-research strategies, selecting search terms strategically, AI considerations, and concept maps.

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How to Narrow Your Topic

How to Narrow Your Topic

This tutorial covers how to choose a topic, how to explore it through strategic searching, and how to narrow it into a research question.

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Research Questions

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

Winona State University - Research Questions from Joshua Vossler on Vimeo.

Thesis Statements

Thesis Statements

This tutorial outlines ways to construct a strong thesis statement.

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