Content/ Topic Words:
- tell you the topic you’re writing about - help you to focus your research and reading on the correct area - keep the essay to a small amount of writing What do you want to research? What is your main topic or interest? Examples: Cancer K-Pop English Content warning: Your topic of study must be ethical. This means you cannot study topics that are unsafe/ harmful for you or others and cannot include cruelty/ unethical experimentation. For this reason, topics like trauma and abuse are not suitable. This is advice from the SACE Board, updated in 2020. |
Limiting Words:
- tell you what area(s) to focus on - define the topic area further - show what to write about and what not to write about - help make your topic smaller so you can write in more detail You will need lots of limiting words to narrow down your topic! If you choose your topic or content words, what about them do you want to look at? Cancer: lung cancer > Treatment of lung cancer > changes/ evolution K-pop: culture > differences between Korean & international fans English: English as a global language > people speaking English only > problems The evolution of the treatment of lung cancer K-Pop fandom illustrates differences in Korean and Western culture The global domination of English affects other languages and cultures Helpful hints: You might narrow down your topic through:
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Question words:
We need our question words to turn our research into a question! We also need to choose the right type of question. Question words: - Turn the statement into a question - Are designed to get a lot of information - Should be an open question For example: How accurate is the assumption that digital media is killing off print media? To what extent have the roles of women changed in the Australian Defence Force? To what extent has the treatment of lung cancer evolved? How accurately does the K-Pop fandom illustrate differences in Korean and Western culture? To what extent does the global domination of English affect other languages and cultures? Helpful hints:
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