Choosing a Topic
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Need help choosing a research topic? The following resources and suggestions may help to trigger ideas.
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Need a topic for a research project? Need to write an article or paper? Some suggestions for generating topic ideas are listed below.
Browse "Hot Topic" Databases
CQ Researcher Explores in depth a single "hot" topic in the news each week. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of a given issue. Numerous charts, graphs, and lengthy bibliographies round out each report.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center "...brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites."
more current issues / hot topics resources from the library's InfoTree Directory
Browse Current Newspapers, Magazines and Websites
Databases containing current newspaper articles
Database containing current magazines (click the magazines link after a search)
Database containing current news magazines (U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek)
Google News (continuously updated news stories from the websites of over 4,000 news sources around the world)
Tutorials on Choosing a Topic
Research 101: Topics, from the University of Washington Libraries
