Subject & Central Theme

Narrow down the subject (topic) to a central theme that includes researchable terms.

The first step in a research project is to distinguish between a subject and a central theme.

A subject is the discipline or academic subject and it is too broad to research.

By focusing on a central theme within the subject, you are narrowing your research to make it more manageable.

For example, biology would be a subject that is too broad to research.

You could narrow down to the subject of health but that is still too broad.

If you focus on anxiety as a health issue, you have narrowed even more.

An example of a central theme for the subject of anxiety might be how testing anxiety affects the physical health of high school students.

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