This document provides guidance on brainstorming and selecting a research topic for a paper. It suggests considering career interests, hobbies, or social issues as potential topics. These topics must allow for an argument and should be narrowed into an essential question. Examples of potential career and hobby topics are provided, along with the importance of identifying controversies within those topics. Social issue topics also require identifying arguments and counterarguments in a T-chart format. Certain restricted topics are identified. The document aims to help the reader select an appropriate argumentative research topic.