Topic+Selection

=Topic Selection (Proposal) (GWU EMSE 216-8000)=

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Because the proposal prepartioan process is often very iterative - and changes often occur during source research, preparting the literature review and the rest of the proposal, even validated questions often change. Research questions can be viewed as ** Working Researach Questions ** until the proposal is accepted by the committee and becomes a ~contract~.

Topic selection begins and ends with Topic Research and Validation. It's an iterative process. Can be quite iterative at the start.
 * For now
 * Find a Question
 * "Make your Topic Manageable"
 * Begin with overviews, then read about the topic in a specialized referene
 * Skim a survey of the topic
 * Skim subhead an a biblography
 * Search the internet (cautiously) (Turabian, 2007, pp 14-15)
 * "Question your Topic" (ask how and why questions)
 * Conduct Preliminary Literature Reviews
 * Reference Search (Gelman Library)
 * Choose Between Topics /Questions
 * Be sure your topic/questions can work ( Topic Research and Validation )


 * Sources**
 * EMSE 8000, Spring 2011
 * Kate Turabian, //A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Disseratations, 7th ed.,// revised by Wayne C. Booth, et. al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Contributors: Sisson