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Research Skills: Issues in Choosing a Research Topic for Your Dissertation

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Michelle Cowley-Cunningham

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Dublin City University

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Arts and Humanities, Education, journalism and information,

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Open Education, Student Success

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CC BY

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This lecture addresses core issues in choosing a research topic for undergraduate and first time researchers to consider. Often final year undergraduate students find this task a difficult one. Step by step the the lecture connects the student to core concepts, pressure points and key readings to foster their idea and focus their decision.

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Taking a year-long view the lecture focuses on: how to generate a research question from a general topic of interest, how to plan a literature review, how to self-monitor one’s own thinking as the conception of the research project takes form, and how to pay attention to ethical and feasibility issues as they arise in the course of planning a research design. Where appropriate the note series indicates key readings relevant to each core component of the lecture, for students to develop their understanding in self-study time.

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Cowley-Cunningham, M. (2023). Research skills: issues in choosing a research topic for your dissertation. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/research-skills-issues-in-choosing-a-research-topic-for-your-dissertation/ License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

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