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    Refining your Dissertation or Project Topic provides questions to help students focus their research topic. The questions help refine a subject into a manageable project scope by focusing on specific aspects to explore in depth and identifying a clear direction through a research question or problem to solve. Considering literature, sources, and methods helps establish feasibility and determine if the project is worth pursuing.

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    Refining your Dissertation or Project Topic provides questions to help students focus their research topic. The questions help refine a subject into a manageable project scope by focusing on specific aspects to explore in depth and identifying a clear direction through a research question or problem to solve. Considering literature, sources, and methods helps establish feasibility and determine if the project is worth pursuing.

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    Refining your Dissertation or Project Topic

    If you’re in the initial stages of working out your dissertation topic, working through these questions may help you to refine and focus your proposal. If you’re in
    the middle or near the end of your dissertation and feel you’re too close to it to see it clearly any more, this exercise might help you regain perspective.

    What is your dissertation Helps you settle on a


    about? subject. Needs to be
    refined further or topic
    will be too broad
    What about it? What Helps you narrow
    aspects will you focus on? down subject into a
    manageable project to
    explore in depth
    What are you going to do? Helps you avoid being
    descriptive, and think
    at a higher level

    What question will you Helps you find a clear


    answer? direction and tell when
    you’ve finished or gone
    off track
    What problem will you Helps you justify why
    solve? the project is worth
    doing

    What might your answer Helps you develop


    look like? aims or hypotheses
    and stay on track

    What literature, sources and Helps you establish


    methods/tools/ideas will whether your project is
    you use to reach it? feasible

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