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Title: Narrowing Your Topic


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Narrowing Your Topic
2
Think about your message
  • In your paper
  • WHAT are you going to
  • SAY about your topic?
  • or
  • What QUESTIONS are you going to ANSWER about your
    topic?

3
And how are you going to do it
  • in just (how many ) pages?

4
Narrowing Strategy 1 Aspect
  • Focus on a particular ASPECT of the topic
  • Not Free trade
  • But Environmental impact of free trade

5
Narrowing Strategy 2 Time
  • Focus on your topic during a particular TIME
    PERIOD
  • Free Trade
  • between
  • 1990 and 2000

6
Narrowing Strategy 3 Type
IT Industry
  • Focus on a specific TYPE or CLASS of people,
    institutions, or other things as they relate to
    your topic
  • Free trade in the IT industry

Capital
Goods
Clothing Industry
Services
Intellectual Property
Labor
Steel Industry
7
Narrowing Strategy 4 Place
  • Focus on a particular PLACE
  • Free trade
  • with Asia

8
Narrowing Strategy 5 Add Two Topics
  • Focus on the relationship between TWO DIFFERENT
    TOPICS
  • Free trade and communism

9
Now, a really big tip
  • COMBINE different kinds of focuses
  • The relationship between free trade agreements
    made between 1990-2000 with communist countries
    in Asia and the US steel industrys compliance
    with environmental protection laws

10
Ok, maybe thats going too far
  • Are you really going to find enough information
    about how free trade agreements made between
    1990-2000 with communist countries in Asia have
    impacted the US steel industrys compliance with
    environmental protection laws?
  • (Maybe not)

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But how about this
  • What can you SAY about
  • Changes in the US steel industry as a result
    of recent free trade agreements with China
  • What QUESTIONS could you try to ANSWER about
  • The impact of recent free trade agreements on
    US environmental law

12
A Review of Narrowing Strategies
  • Narrow your topic by focusing on
  • Aspect
  • Time
  • Type
  • Place
  • Its relationship with a second topic
  • A combination of two or more of the above
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