The Bedford Researcher

Mike Palmquist
www.bedfordresearcher.com

My Research Project: Choose an Issue within Your Topic

In your research log, complete the following activity to narrow your topic to a
single issue.
1. What are the three most important issues I have identified so far?
How we could create zombies or how they could be
created naturally
The end of the world from the creation of zombies
How to avoid the creation of zombies

2. Of these issues, which one will best help me sustain my interest in this
project?
How could we create zombies or how they could be
created naturally

3. Which one will best help me achieve my purposes as a writer?

All of them will help me as a writer.

4. Which one will best address my readers needs, interests, values, and
beliefs?

Probably the first one but the third is relevant to what I

want to know because I want us avoid the creation of
zombies altogether but I want to research the ways that
they could be created.

5. Which one is best suited to my context (social, cultural, historical,

disciplinary, physical)?
The second one

6. Which one is most appropriate for the type of document I plan to

write?

The first one based on what I want to research and write

about to teach others about how they could be created
and the possibility of it happening.

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The Bedford Researcher

Mike Palmquist
www.bedfordresearcher.com

7. Which one best fits the requirements of my assignment?

They all do.

8. Which one has the fewest limitations?

The second one

9. Which one allows me to best take advantage of opportunities?

The first one

10. Based on these answers, the issue I want to choose is:

I want to choose the first issue because I want to learn
how they could be created rather than after they have
already been created.

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