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Answer 1

What town do you live in?

Answer 2

Yeah it depends on the town. Some towns have a large history which would give you a lot of writing material. However sometimes a town/city is just big or small and doesn't have many interesting things going inside of the town. Go to your local library and research everything there is on the town you're writing about. The more facts you find out the better.

Answer 3

okay thanks!!

Answer 4

I too often find myself having to write economically regarding broad topics. Below are a few methods I use when approaching a topic and constructing an abstract or the framework of the research. You could experience a number of problems if your topic is too broad, including:

You find too many information sources and, as a consequence, it is difficult to decide what to include or exclude or what are the most important.

You find information that is too general and, as a consequence, it is difficult to develop a clear framework for understanding the research problem and the methods needed to analyze it.

You find information that covers a wide variety of concepts or ideas that can't be integrated into one paper and, as a consequence, you easily trail off into unnecessary tangents.

With that said be aware of these issues with the information you collect from your library as suggested. A few personal methods I use to narrow down a topic are:

Aspect -- choose one lens through which to view the research problem, or look at just one facet of it [e.g., rather than studying the role of food in Eastern religious rituals; study the role of food in Hindu ceremonies, or, the role of one particular type of food among several religions].

Components -- determine if your initial variables or unit of analyses can be broken into smaller parts, which can then be analyzed more precisely [e.g., a study of tobacco use among adolescents can focus on just chewing tobacco rather than all forms of usage or, rather than adolescents in general, focus on female adolescents in a certain age range who smoke].

Place -- the smaller the area of analysis, the more narrow the focus [e.g., rather than study trade relations in West Africa, study trade relations between Niger and Cameroon].

Relationship -- how do two or more different perspectives or variables relate to one another? [e.g., cause/effect, compare/contrast, contemporary/historical, group/individual, male/female, opinion/reason, problem/solution].

Time -- the shorter the time period, the more narrow the focus.

Type -- focus your topic in terms of a specific type or class of people, places, or things [e.g., a study of traffic patterns near schools can focus only on SUVs, or just student drivers, or just the timing of stoplights in the area].

Combination -- use two or more of the above strategies to focus your topic very narrowly.

Apply one of the above first to determine if that gives you a manageable research problem to investigate; combining multiple strategies risks creating the opposite problem--your topic becomes too narrowly defined and you can't locate enough research or data to support your study.

Answer 5

thank you so much!!!