Narrowing Your Topic
- Use this Topic Narrowing Worksheet to help you work through the narrowing process. Page 1 features a sample.
- Use Gale's Topic Finder to give you ideas for a specific focus.
- Utah State University lists questions you can ask yourself to help you narrow a topic.
- University of Arizona offers this guide to mind mapping, which helps focus and narrow a topic.
THESIS STATEMENT DEVELOPMENT
- OWL Purdue provides thesis statement guidelines and examples. Look at the expository example.