
Choosing a Topic
Pick something you can finish, not something that sounds impressive.

The topic decision quietly sets your next twelve months. The ambitious choice made in week one is what makes week twenty miserable, usually when the data turns out not to exist. We pressure test ideas before you commit: can it be scoped to your deadline, does the data exist and can you get it, and can you say the gap in one sentence. You leave with three workable titles. A rough idea is enough to start.
What you get
- Scope tested against your actual submission date
- Data checked to exist before you commit to needing it
- The gap stated in one sentence you can repeat
- Your supervisor's interests factored in honestly
- Three viable titles, not one gamble
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Where your results stop being numbers and become findings.
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The Abstract
Two hundred words that decide whether anyone reads the other twenty thousand.
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