What is research topic?

In my previous articles I have explained you about what is thesis, the vocabulary used in a thesis, basic structure of a thesis so on. Now from this article I am going to explain you about how to select a research topic. 

Basically, This is the subject or the issue that you are going to conduct your research. this is a very difficult task that you have to face at the first step of your thesis. But don’t be afraid. I will help you to select a good thesis topic which related to your subject field. 

Let’s start.  You have to submit your research topic to your relevant department at the university. A relevant supervisor to your thesis is given according to your research topic. Therefore, you have to select an interesting field to build up your thesis step by step. And also, you should have a good knowledge about the subject field that you have selected. Without a good knowledge and interest, you can’t do your thesis well. So, it is your responsibility to select a research topic by your own that should be easy to handle. 

After selecting a good subject field, you have to check weather there are plenty of existing literature. To build up thesis step by step you need plenty of existing literature. Without having plenty of existing literature you can’t provide a good solution to the problem that you have found. After that you have to create a topic by yourself. It should be brief. But the research topic should be able to provide full information and a good knowledge about what you are going to do. I will show you some examples. Then you can easily understand the format of the thesis topic.

Examples: 
  1. Maintenance of the status quo in South Asia: India and China’s soft power usage.
  2. Industrial revolution: Behavior of United Kingdom and its influence on other countries.

When looking at the above examples you can understand that these research topics are brief but informative. Therefore, I believe that you will be able to create a good research topic to your thesis after reading this article. 

In my next article I am going to explain you about how to write a good research proposal. So, keep in touch with my next articles too.