Asking questions about your topic can help you generate ideas and survey your subject.
The most general types of questions are those asked by journalists when they’re gathering material for a story. Asking a journalist’s questions might help you get started and understand your subject.
Journalist’s questions
One student, whose subject was the negative reaction in 1915 to D. W. Griffith’s silent film The Birth of a Nation, began exploring her topic with this set of questions:
Asking questions in the disciplines