The Senior Project is an opportunity for high school seniors to examine a topic of their choice in-depth. However, with an array of topics to choose from: health, poverty, education, etc., topic selection can be somewhat of a challenge.
Successful Senior Projects study a topic in-depth, so instead of using too broad of a topic, examine the HOW and WHY questions vs. the what questions.
For instance, if the topic was about smoking, the what question (What are the dangers of smoking?) would produce more of a book report than a research paper. A how/why question could be: why do teens smoke? How to media encourage smoking among youth?
Generating these how/why questions can help as guiding questions when conducting preliminary research on a topic. If there is too little existing research or resources regarding the topic, the topic selection can be modified.
Conducting preliminary research can help narrow down topics and can even help direct writing a strong thesis.
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