Name: __________________________________ Year & Section: _______________________

Post-Competency. Exercise 11. Narrowing the Topic

Using the final topic on your pre-competency exercise:

1. Write your topic on the box below:

Final Topic

Example: Agritourism

Plant watering AUTOMATION

2. Narrow down your topic by considering these 4 factors. Write your answers on the
2nd column.

Factors to Consider in Narrowing Your answer to the specific

your Topic factor
1 Time Example: Agritourism and the
Is there a particular time period you COVID 19 Pandemic
want to focus on? In the last 10
years?
2 Place or Location Example: Agritourism in the Bicol
Is there a particular place you want Region
to focus on? Can you focus your
topic to a certain locality, region or
country?

3 Population/Category Example: Agritourism and the

Is there a particular group of people Bicolano Farmer
or category you want to focus on?
4 Perspective or Point of View Example: Agritourism in the point
Is there a particular point of view or of view of an agriculturist
perspective from which you would
like to approach the topic? A
student’s perspective? A farmer’s?
An businessman’s? An economist’s?
3. Identify issues or subtopics about your topic.

Issues Title of Source/Reference

Identified Article/Reading (Use the APA Style)
Material
Example: Example: Example:
Agritourism Agritourism in the Wojcieszak-Zbierska, M. M., Jęczmyk, A.,
and the Era of COVID 19 Zawadka, J., & Uglis, J. (2020). Agritourism
COVID 19 in the era of the coronavirus (Covid-19): A
Pandemic rapid assessment from poland. Agriculture
(Switzerland), 10(9), 1–19.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture1009039
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1 Automatic
. Impact of Plants Astutiningtyas, M. B. I., Nugraheni, M.
Plant Watering M., & Suyoto, S. (2021b). Automatic
watering System for Plants Watering System for Small
Automation Small Garden Garden. International Journal of
in small Interactive Mobile
garden
Technologies, 15(02),
200. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i0
2.12803

2 Plant Greenhouse Dwinugroho, T. B., Hapsari, Y. T., & K.

. watering automation: (2021). Greenhouse automation:
Automation smart watering
system for plants smart watering system for plants in
in in greenhouse greenhouse using programmable logic
greenhouse using control (PLC). Journal of Physics:
programmable Conference Series, 1823(1),
logic control
(PLC) 012014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-
6596/1823/1/012014

3
.
4. Narrow down from broad to specific. Be guided by the 4 factors to consider in
narrowing the topic. Write your answer on the 2 nd column.

Broad Topic Example: Agritourism

Narrowed Topic Example: Agritourism in the Bicol Region

Specific Topic Example: Agritourism in the Bicol Region during

the COVID 19 Pandemic

Research Question Example: What is the status of the Agritourism in

the Bicol Region during the COVID 19 Pandemic?