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How to Do Research
1 How do I find a topic to research?
2 How can I figure out if my topic is too broad?
The idea of doing research may seem daunting, but as long as you keep yourself organized and focus on the question you want to answer, you'll be fine. If you're curious and interested in the topic, you might even find it fun! We here at wikiHow have gathered answers to all your most common questions about how to do research, from finding a good topic to identifying the best sources and writing your final paper.
Preliminary research in your field of study helps you find a topic.
If you're doing your research to fulfill a class requirement, look over the information about the assignment and your materials for the class to narrow down your options. If you have more free rein, look into issues or ideas that interest you personally.
For example, if you're researching in the political science field, you might be interested in determining what leads people to believe that the 2020 US presidential election was illegitimate.
Write down any sub-questions that you need to research before you can adequately formulate your research question.
Do a preliminary search to find what information already exists.
If you do a basic internet search and get hundreds of thousands of results, it's probably too broad. Likewise, if you can see from the results that other researchers have narrowed the topic, that tells you they found it too broad—which probably means it's too broad for you, too.
For example, suppose you're researching why people believe the 2020 US presidential election was illegitimate. If an internet search brings up articles looking at voters from individual states, you might infer that "people" is too broad and you need to define which people you're going to study.
It's also possible that the topic you've chosen has already been researched extensively. In that situation, try to find a different angle that hasn't been looked at before. Scholarly journal articles often have sections devoted to questions for further research—these can get you started in the right direction.
Focus on a specific time period, population, or geographic area.
Use these criteria to limit your topic and make it more specific. This will give you a smaller population to work with so your conclusions will be more reliable. It also makes your study more workable.[4]
For example, you might be interested in a national issue, but studying the national population would be unworkable. Instead, you might focus on the impact of that issue on a smaller population, such as the people in your city.
If you go too far and end up making your topic too narrow, simply reverse the process.
Look for overview articles to gain a better understanding of your topic.
If an overview article has a bibliography section, you can find other sources there. Overview articles also give you an idea of what keywords you should use to search for other sources.[5]
For example, if you're researching the 2020 election, you might find that "absentee ballots" and "voting by mail" come up frequently. Those are issues you could look into further to figure out how they impacted the final election results.
You don't necessarily have to use the overview articles you look at as resources in your actual paper. Even Wikipedia articles can be a good way to learn more about a topic and you can check the references for more reputable sources that might work for your paper.