Let's talk a little bit about finding and coming up with an effective and manageable research paper topic. A couple things, just to start with, number one is when you start research, often you're not going to know a ton about the topic before you start doing the research. So don't be afraid that as you start reading the literature on your topic to let the topic evolve as you start learning about it. In other words, you may not know the right questions to ask about your topic so that you can come up with an effective final topic to actually write about and add your own ideas to. And then also, as you start reading the literature, let the evidence that you encounter lead you to that final topic of interest and especially to how you know what kind of arguments you're going to make about that topic, what kind of ideas you're going to add on to it. In other words, you want to, if you can, come at a research topic as open-minded as possible. And then also, you want to find a topic that is of real interest to you, that drives your own curiosity. If you can find an aspect of a topic that does that, research shows that the paper that you produce will be better, your grades will probably improve as well. Now, a good way to explore a possible topic and to help you find an effective aspect of that topic is to brainstorm about your topic and specifically about possible subtopics that authors and researchers might write about and keywords that are associated with that topic that you can then use to search the literature to find resources, information sources on your topic. And one easy way to think about this...