Research topic selection has always seen as a heavy task. Some homework beforehand could make it interesting and easy, here it is

Scan Your Surroundings

Your surroundings is the first observation you could make without any hassles. Notice everything that surrounds you be it a discussion, objects, people, behaviour, factors and many more. Give each a thought and scan in your mind what disturbs you most? Answers to these questions might pave your way ahead in search for research questions.

Solution and Improvement

Solution and improvement are two key points in topic selection. Every problem has a solution and every solution leads to improvement. Try to identify is there something around you that need solution?

Reading and Observation

Everyone reads one or other thing everyday like newspaper, magazines, books and nowadays blogs. Your readings will tell you your interest area.

When you roam around or you obey a daily routine you observe a lot many things. Mind it your observation is second most important thing that could lead you to your interest area.

It really doesn’t matter that your interest lies in entertainment, digital industry and monetary observations or in social media. The main point is to identify your interest area. Ask yourself do I want to go for in depth analysis in certain selected area?

Planning for Research

Once you decide your interest area move on for research literature. Read some good research books of your own choice. This exercise will help you to identify research agenda in your interest area. Once you find some research agenda, identify question that arises from the agenda. Select one or two primary questions for your research topic. Don’t forget to ask yourself do the solutions for selected problems could be generated specifically?

Also read some basic statistical books, it will help you in understanding basics of analysis.

Library Visit

Visit your institutional or nearby library to get known with available resources you could use in your research. Online libraries are convenient source of rich literature at one place. So why not use online libraries to collect data? Go through online libraries methodologies for relevant searching.

Social Media and Other Tools

Research methods have changed with time. Now people spend their significant amount of time on social media platforms so why not collect data from these platforms? Get familiar yourself with different ways of collecting data through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google docs and many more.

Get yourself acquainted with Microsoft excel and Google doc working. Excel would help to feed and streamline your data in proper way. Similarly Google docs have features like creating forms for data collection.

Above mentioned points would support you in Research topic selection with ease and convenience!!

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