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Practice 1
Responses will vary. Here is a possibility:
Assignment:
Identify a factor that you believe figures strongly in a child’s personality 
development. Explain how that factor may influence the child.
Broad topic:
Factors influencing a child’s personality development
Narrowed topic:
Parents
Sufficiently narrowed topic:
Parents who work outside the home
Further narrowed topic:
What kind of childcare parents choose for their children
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Topic turned into a question: How does the kind of childcare working parents choose affect a child’s per-
sonality development?
Tentative thesis:
The kind of childcare working parents choose has a powerful impact on a
child’s personality development.
Practice 2
A successful response might look like this:
Assignment:
Discuss how sports influence popular culture. Use specific examples from the 
sports world. 
Broad topic:
How sports influence popular culture