This short video demonstrates to students how to develop an appropriate topic for a research paper by considering goals, approaches, topic scope and helpful resources.
• Helps to define your topic to a manageable scope
• Allows you to identify a problem that can guide your searching
* Ecology of Ontario wetlands
* Ecology of remediated wetlands
* Plant health on remediated wetlands
* Ontario government policy on wetlands remediation
Some people find brainstorming techniques such as concept mapping to be helpful. Concept maps are linked nodes of concepts or ideas; the linking arrows demonstrate connections between nodes.
Source: “concept_map_lrg,” jean-louis zimmermann
There are tons of different software options available to assist with concept mapping.
Here are a few browser-based tools to get you started:
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