Isla 585

How to develop a research topic?ISLA 585 – Winter 2014

Anaïs SALAMONHead Librarian – Islamic Studies Libraryanais.salamon@mcgill.ca

Develop a research topic

State your topic as a question

Find background information

Today’s topics

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Choose a workable research topic

What are the ways in which

history and memory

connect with each other

in contemporary

Arab American women’s fiction?

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Clear Focused Arguable Complex

State your topic in a research question

How do feminists use

violence in literature?

What do you think of this question?

What are some recurrent positive

and negative ways in which the

concept of violence is used in

Arab feminists’ literature?

Now, what do you think of this one?

Indentify the most important concepts

Violence

Arab Feminists

Arab Literature

Find background information

Wikipedia & Google

E-Reference books

Subject guides

Bibliographies

The research process

Define your research topic

Brainstorm

What type of information do you need?

Develop your search strategy

Review results

Conduct your search

Write your paper

Develop a research topic

State your topic as a question

Find background information

Today’s topics

Questions?

Thank you!anais.salamon@mcgill.ca