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(Exercise 10) Choosing a Topic

Sometimes it's hard to decide on a topic for an essay or a report. Use this exercise to
help you brainstorm and come up with a final topic for explanatory essay.

1. Brainstorm on the Topic topic you find interesting.

Topics
1 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

2 Land and Water Conservation

3 Hydrometeorology

2. Go to your online library resources. . Do a quick search for books, journals and other
resources that relate to the topics on your list. Write down at least 3 resources you find for
each of your topics.

Topics References Found on the Topic

(APA Style)
3 references per topic
1 Irrigation and Drainage Waller, P., & Yitayew, M. (2016). Irrigation
Engineering and Drainage
Engineering. Springer
EBooks. https://doi.org/10.1007/97
8-3-319-05699-9

Zhang, L., Jin, J., & Cheng, J. (2007,

August 1). Research and
application of computational
intelligence method on irrigation
and drainage engineering: a
review.
ResearchGate. https://www.researc
hgate.net/publication/295577543_R
esearch_and_application_of_comp
utational_intelligence_method_on_i
rrigation_and_drainage_engineerin
g_a_review

Wang, X. (2013). Effect of irrigation and

drainage engineering control on
improvement of soil salinity in
Tianjin. Mendeley. https://doi.org/10
.3969/j.issn.1002-
6819.2013.20.012
2 Land and Water Conservation
Sun, W., Bian, J., Li, Y., & Li, J. (2022b).
Water conservation capacity under
climate and land use change
scenarios in Changbai Mountain,
China. Water Science &
Technology: Water Supply, 22(12),
9005–9022. https://doi.org/10.2166/
ws.2022.399

Setyawan, C., Susanto, S., & Lee, C.

(2019). Land and water
conservation practices in tropical
agricultural watershed. Journal of
Degraded and Mining Lands
Management. https://doi.org/10.152
43/jdmlm.2019.062.1697

Rao, S. P. S., Prasad, J. S., Rao, K. J.,

Kiran, B. V. S., Ranjith, M., Veni, V.
G., Priyadarshini, P., Abhilash, P.
C., & Choudhari, S. K. (2021). Land
and Water Conservation
Technologies for Building Carbon
Positive Villages in India. Land
Degradation &
Development. https://doi.org/10.100
2/ldr.4160

3 Singh, V. P., Singh, V. P., & Cho, K. H.

Hydrometeorology (2021). Deep Learning for
Hydrometeorology and
Environmental Science. Water
Science and Technology
Library. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-
3-030-64777-3

Rakhecha, P. R., & Singh, V. P. (2009).

Applied Hydrometeorology. Springer
EBooks. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-
1-4020-9844-4

Phuong, J., Bandaragoda, C.,

Istanbulluoglu, E., Beveridge, C.,
Strauch, R. L., Setiawan, L., &
Mooney, S. D. (2019). Automated
retrieval, preprocessing, and
visualization of gridded
hydrometeorology data products for
spatial-temporal exploratory analysis
and intercomparison. Environmental
Modelling and Software, 116, 119–
130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft
.2019.01.007
3. Choose one topic from the list above. State the reason why you choose the topic for
your business plan and write it below:

Final Topic

Topic:

Reason in Choosing the Topic: