What topic should you pick?

Sometimes topic selection can be a big challenge in the research process.  For this course, you may select any topic you like.  If you don’t have a specific topic in mind already, here are some sources of inspiration:

• Are you doing research in another course? You could use the research topic for that course to complete the LBR 105 assignments – by the end of LBR 105, you will have at least 9 different sources of information to use for your other course.
• Browse through recent newspapers and magazines for hot research topics.  What are your friends and family talking about?
• Look at your own interests – for example, are you interested in music, sports, travel, the environment, or cutting-edge technologies?
• Flip through general encyclopedias, such as the World Book Encyclopedia or Encyclopaedia Britannica.  These encyclopedias are available in most college and public libraries.  There are also some encyclopedias online:

  Encyclopaedia Britannica (not all content is available for free - if the information you need is not free, try another encyclopedia)
  Oxford Reference Online - World Encyclopedia (log in when prompted with your NovaConnect username and password)

Hopefully you've got a few ideas now for a topic to use for this course. The next step will be to refine your topic so that the scope is appropriate for this course.