CHOOSING A

RESEARCH
TOPIC
 Developing a Topic for Research
 Delimiting a Research Topic
Developing a
Topic for Research
GUIDELINES I. Interest in the subject matter
Your real interest in a subject pushes you to research, investigate,
or inquire about it with full motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.
II. Availability of Information
Collecting a lot of information as evidence to support your claims
about your subject matter from varied forms of literature is a part and
parcel of any research work.
III. Timeliness and relevance of the topic
The topic is relevant if it yields results that are instrumental in
societal improvement. It is timely if it is related to the present.
IV. Limitations on the subject
Makes you link your choosing with course requirements.
V. Personal Resources
Assess your research abilities in terms of your personal
conditions.
 Research  Controversial topics

Topics to be  Highly technical subjects

Avoided
 Hard-to-investigate subjects

 Too broad subjects

 Too narrow subjects

 Vague subjects
Delimiting a
Research Topic
 In this step, a researcher proceeds from a general research area of interest to a
more specific topic of research to conduct a study.
Example:
Initially, a researcher decides to conduct a study of female feticide; later in
this stage researcher limits it to a specific topic, “A Study on Perception of
Women About Causes and Prevention of Female Feticide in Selected Rural
Communities of District Moradabad, Uttarpradesh”.

 A researcher clearly identifies variables, population, and settings of research

study. Furthermore, a researcher is quite clear about the phenomenon to be
studied, where and on whom.
Important  Persons or categories of people to be studied.

Things to  Place of the study

Consider
 Time period of the research

 Spheres of human interest

 Social artifacts
GROUP 2