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

Technology and advance farming

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
1 Time
Is there a particular time period you
want to focus on? In the last 10
years?
2 Place or Location
Is there a particular place you want
to focus on? Can you focus your
topic to a certain locality, region or
country?
factor
Example: The next 5 years after
applying technology and advance
farming.
Example: Technology and
advance farming in the
Philippines.

3 Population/Category Example: Filipino farmers

Is there a particular group of people
or category you want to focus on?
4 Perspective or Point of View Example: The use of technology
Is there a particular point of view or and advance farming in the point
perspective from which you would of view of the farmers.
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,
and the COVID Era of COVID 19 A., Zawadka, J., & Uglis, J. (2020).
19 Pandemic Agritourism in the era of the
coronavirus (Covid-19): A rapid
assessment from poland. Agriculture
(Switzerland), 10(9), 1–19.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture1009
0397
1
. Changes How Digital Ekekwe, N. (2017). How Digital
brought by Technology Is Technology Is Changing
technology Changing Farming Farming in Africa.
and Digital in Africa Mendeley. https://www.mendel
farming ey.com/catalogue/b432167d-
b148-36ca-b0da-
7f8653390dbe/

2
Impact of digital Maurya, S. (2020, March
. Impact of
technology in 31). Impact of digital
Digital
Technology Farming . technology in
and Farming Farming . ResearchGate. http
s://www.researchgate.net/publ
ication/334784559_Impact_of
_digital_technology_in_Farmin
g
 3
. Status of Application of Naresh, R., Kumar, S., Chandra, M.
Agriculture Digital S., Pathak, S. O., Gupta, S.,
after using Technologies for Gawdiya, S., & Singh, P. K.
technology the Next Level of (2021). Application of Digital
and Digital Agriculture Growth Technologies for the Next
farming and Transformation Level of Agriculture Growth
under Changing the and Transformation under
Indian Agriculture: Changing the Indian
A Critical Review Agriculture: A Critical
Review. International Journal
of Enviornment and Climate
Change, 47–
67. https://doi.org/10.9734/ijec
c/2021/v11i830457

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: Technology and digital farming

Narrowed Topic Example: Technology and digital farming in the

Philippines

Specific Topic Example: Impact of Technology and Digital farming

to the Filipino farmers

Research Question Example: What is the status of the Philippines

farming with the use of Technology and Digital
farming.