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Choosing and Narrowing Topics

A Definition of Topic

Arriving at Topics for Writing Assignments

How Purpose and Audience Affect the Choice of Topics

Choosing Workable Topics

How to Find a Topic

Subjects and Topics

Starting With What You Know

General Strategies for Coming Up With Topics

Strategies for Finding Topics Appropriate to Particular Types of Assignments

Generating More Than One Topic Idea

Narrowing Topics

Moving from Topic to Thesis

Working With Topics in Different Disciplines

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Strategies for Finding Topics Appropriate to Particular Types of Assignments

Sometimes your ways of generating topics will depend on the type of writing assignment you have been given. Here are some ideas of strategies you can use in finding topics for some of the more common types of writing assignments:

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