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The document provides guidance on narrowing a research topic by adding layers such as subgroups, time periods, locations, methodologies, and related concepts. It advises representing the narrowed topic as overlapping areas in a diagram and includes examples of narrowing the topic of women's daily lives in the 19th century by specifying class, country, and source material.
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- 1. Start with your topic
- 2. Narrow it down by adding a sub-topic
- 3. Think of other ways to narrow it down, like time…
- 4. or place…
- 6. Your narrowed topic is where all of these aspects overlap.
- 7. FOR EXAMPLE…
- 8. Topic: women’s daily lives
- 9. … middle- and upper-class
- 10. … in the early- to mid-19 th century