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Narrowing your Topic

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    Narrowing your Topic

     

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    Now that you have all this great information, it's time to funnel all that info down into a specific topic.  

    Having a narrow topic is critical in a project like this. Unless you're planning to write a full biography of your person (upwards of 500 pages!), you'll need to choose a specific area or time period of your person's life that you think were the most influential on our world now. 

    Narrow the topic down to one area of the person's life (a 1-5 year period or a topic/theme) that hugely influenced the world.

    As you continue the research and writing process, narrow your topic down to something you can cover in 4-5 pages.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


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