Read about your topic and list three ways to focus it.
Articles in reference books provide excellent background information and many ideas for focusing your research topic.
Three ideas that emerged from the reference articles on Tim O'Brien and the psychological effects of the Vietnam War are:
- the depiction of Tim O'Brien's personal experiences of the Vietnam War in his work
- the effect on one's humanity of the psychological stress imposed by warfare
- the effect that war-induced stress has on a veteran's everyday life
