Your topic should facilitate a critical approach that integrates some of the theories covered in your course.
Your research topic may be born through different channels:
Lo más complicado cuando pensamos en un tema, es asegurarse que este tema no es ni muy grande, ni muy pequeño.
Ejemplo:
El anarquismo ⇒ Muy grande
El anarquismo en España ⇒ hemos regionalizado el tema, pero todavía es muy grande
El efecto legal del anarquismo en España ⇒ hemos enmarcado el anarquismo en el ámbito legal.
Finalmente llegamos a un tema:
El efecto legal del anarquismo durante la Revolución Social española de 1936: La legitimidad de la autoridad
Your research question will be related to your topic. This question usually answers a matter not covered by previous scholarship.
Developing Research Questions: Your Purpose
Please take a look at where your questions will lead you. Will your question lead you to:
Background sources are beneficial at the beginning stages of your research process. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and even Wikipedia are traditional background sources that we usually do not cite in our final project. These sources will give us ideas for research topics, keywords and even provide further information that may be useful.
When you find a book or article of interest in the Library catalog, you may look at its bibliographic record and subject terms. The Library of Congress creates subject terms, usually linked to additional resources on the topic. When you use subject terms in your searches, you expand your search.
Example: Subject Headings Related to José María Blanco White’s Bosquexo del Comercio en Esclavos
Example: Subject Headings Related to the Second Republic of 1931-1936 and Anarchism