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    The document provides examples of how to narrow a research topic by asking a series of questions. It shows starting with a broad topic like the First World War and then asking more specific questions to hone in on the importance of Ypres to Canadians. Another example starts with social networking and narrows to whether Facebook creates real community. A final example takes Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing and narrows in on how its uniquely Canadian setting.

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    The document provides examples of how to narrow a research topic by asking a series of questions. It shows starting with a broad topic like the First World War and then asking more specific questions to hone in on the importance of Ypres to Canadians. Another example starts with social networking and narrows to whether Facebook creates real community. A final example takes Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing and narrows in on how its uniquely Canadian setting.

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    The document provides examples of how to narrow a research topic by asking a series of questions. It shows starting with a broad topic like the First World War and then asking more specific questions to hone in on the importance of Ypres to Canadians. Another example starts with social networking and narrows to whether Facebook creates real community. A final example takes Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing and narrows in on how its uniquely Canadian setting.

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    RESEARCH NARROWING A TOPIC EXERCISE

    There is no single correct approach.

    Note how each example hones in on a narrower topic by asking a series of questions.

    Check to see if your examples follow a similar pattern.

    Topic: The First World War

    Ask a question: What about the First World War? What matters in the First World War?

    Make it more specific: What matters in the First World War to Canadians?

    Answer the questions: Ypres is important to Canadians.

    Research your position. Look at all sides of an issue.

    Refine the position to narrow the topic: The importance of Ypres to Canadians is

    contested.

    Topic: Social Networking

    Ask a question: Does social networking help or harm us?

    Make it more specific: Does Facebook help or harm us?

    Research your position. Refine it to narrow the topic: Does Facebook create real

    community?

    A narrowed topic might be the following: Is Facebook making us lonely? Click for a

    brilliant essay with this title to read some fantastic writing.

    Topic: Margaret Atwoods Surfacing

    What about it? Ask a question: What is really Canadian about Surfacing?

    Answer the question: The setting of Surfacing makes the text Canadian

    A narrowed topic might be the following: The Uniquely Canadian Setting of Margaret

    Atwoods Surfacing

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