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Developing Your Topic: Developing Your Topic

This guide offers instruction and helpful tips on how to develop your topic for an academic paper or class assignment.

Developing a Topic Video

This short video by the now-defunct Cooperative Library Instruction Project and hosted by the Downs-Jones Library will give you more information about developing your topic and help you to consider goals, approaches, topic scope and helpful resources.

Tips

Tips for developing a research topic
Very helpful information from the University of Victoria, including: why develop a research topic, tips for developing your topic, and an example of a concept map.