Aspects of a Topic

There are five areas on which you can focus to narrow down your topic. These are:

  • TIME:
  • PLACE:
  • PERSON:
  • GROUP:
  • EVENT:
  • DISCIPLINE:

For this tutorial, we will continue considering the water garden as our example. Next, we will describe each of these five areas. First, we will give a general explanation of how to apply these concepts to a topic. Then, we will give specific examples about how to apply them to the water garden.



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