After selecting a topic, if your assignment requires a working thesis, try to formulate a preliminary working thesis. This will serve as a roadmap to your search.
Once you conduct an initial search of the literature, you might want to refine your topic. Two common ways are:
After refining your topic, revise a working thesis accordingly.
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