One of the most challenging tasks in the life of a student is writing a research project writing, be it a thesis or dissertation. But sometimes, choosing a project topic is difficult than writing the project itself …okay, okay, I don’t think writing it is ever easy …lol …but then, imagine how important coming up with a topic can be to your professional career. This moment is directly connected to your future whether you are deciding to dedicate your life to research on a specific field of study, or you have a strong desire to push the envelope in your chosen specialization. It was actually one of the most critical choices of my career, infact, it defined my career as a scientific researcher, and is still charting its course.

Below are tips to help you make the right decision on the topic for your thesis.
 
1. Go through previous term papers, mini-projects and assignments.
I personally think this should be the first thing to do. Look through the topics of all assignments, term papers, group projects, class projects, and mini-projects that you were directly or indirectly involved at one point or the other in your classes before now.
This will help you identify your areas of interest and specializations, and subsequently, existing gaps you can work towards filling or problems you can find a solution to. When I was to choose my current major specialization in my undergraduate, I realised that I enjoyed a lot of class practical and experiments that has to do with the internal structures of plant, so it was just an easy decision for me to pick Plant Anatomy, and choosing my project topic became less difficult …This brings me to the next point

2. Choose something you are passionate about.
Some supervisors prefer to assign certain topics to their students to explore, others give freedom of choice to their students. So, it may happen so that during your studentship, you have to create various tasks concerning the topics which were not interesting to you. A project is an excellent opportunity to take everything into your own hands, your supervisor might just be give you the freedom. The responsibility is enormous, but it is worth trying.
You may also decide to continue the investigation of one problem you have already encountered. I did this when I was going to pick a topic for my doctorate degree. Because I had worked in a team of four to investigate a problem, expanding the scope of the research to continue the investigation was not too difficult to decide on.

3. Consult your supervisor.
A thesis/dissertation is supposed to be an independent research work, however, you have a supervisor who can help you to handle some difficulties. Choosing a project topic is a serious reason to talk with him/her as well, because he/she is usually able to give you a good counsel concerning this problem and help you to start working.
My own supervisor usually has his own ideas, but gives me space for creative freedom by always asking my ideas, and in the end, we always find a meeting point of our ideas. Usually, after his inputs from his wealth of experience, the beauty of the work to be done is seen even before I start working. This is one great benefit of consulting your supervisor.

4. Analyze literature resources.
In choosing your project topic, another way is to work with resources from literatures, particularly other research and review articles in your field of study. This may seem difficult for a newbie, but shouldn’t be for someone who has studied a number of research articles from journals before the stage of dissertation writing.
This method is one that can help sort out a lot of things at the same time. First is that you can collate resources available on a certain subject of interest, second is that you can collect the reference list at the same time, third is that you acquire more knowledge and exposure in your area of interest, most of all is that you can come up with a working project title. I have come up with a lot of feasible project titles in my head this way, I have a number of friends who have too. And as we went on, these

5. Employ a multidisciplinary approach
This approach to choosing a project topic requires that you have a knowledge of more disciplines than your. You don’t necessarily need the deepest of knowledge of that discipline, and that’s why you have your supervisor and other academic and research personnel to help on your work along the way.
As at the time of writing this, I'm on a research that integrates two disciplines and most of my extracurricular interests. This is a complex approach, but interestingly, I’m comfortable with it. I'd like to think it's easy to get comfortable with a multidisciplinary project topic if it involves your interest.
Employing a multidisciplinary approach be also lead to creating something new, more, you may not have a problem coming up with a novelty contribution to knowledge in this seemingly discovery-bombarded world of research.

These are general and maybe personal recommendations, but I have no doubt they can be efficient in your situation. It applies to all classes of students, be you a Bachelors or Masters or Doctorate.  You may need an integration of more than one approach, and this usually is the case, however, what matters when choosing a project topic is coming up with something that would develop and add value to the society at large.

Please share your thoughts in the comment section below if any of these approaches resonates with you, or if other approaches you think should be included.

Hello! Are you a newbie to Nigerian University education? .What you are passionate about?. The one first thing you should do is to consult your supervisor. When I was in OAU,as an English Language student, I picked a project I was passionate about which was "an instance of Power and Ideologies found in selected texts and Speech(s)of Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich"which belongs to the field of Critical discourse analysis, to my surprise, my supervisor did not only vehemently turned me down, but started calling me a rebel and potential killer. I had already put together all known resources of that project line. Before I eventually found a suitable project topic which he liked (of course, it was his picking) he rejected further seven different cool topics. I eventually ended up analysing Nasir el-Rufai's political texts which was utmost boring. One of my friend research topic was even turned down because it was on Obaiagbon of Edo state, who is very well known. Her excuse was that she had never had of that person in her entire life and even asked my friend what the Honourable does for a living. A whole Federal Honourable and one time Edo State Chief of Staff!!?. The problem is that they are just plain lazy and are not willing to do any further research. Thank God I and some of my friends escaped with a narrow B(60 on dot).

So, you see my friend, it's not about what you are passionate about, but what the lecturer/supervisor deems fit to be less stressful and ordinary to suit his own selfish interest .Although,the Institutions always lay emphasis on students to choose project topics which are applicable to the current predicaments of the nation, nevertheless, this should not be applicable to all fields of study afterall the research project is carried out by the students in "partial fulfilment of their Bachelor's degree in..... ".

Conversely,this might not be applicable to all lecturers and institutiond but trust me, majority will give you hell on Earth during your project days in an Institution.

Anyways, you should have included:

1 Consult your supervisor on a unanimous project topic and,

2 Brace for future impacts.









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Go to the school library or department library and collect 5years ago work and change the names

Anyway what do I know

The guy ^^^^ above me is a clown I swear

simple, go to other schools and collect their own projects. ���������.

A project should be a challenge to the student. An avenue to learn and develop yourself. However, a lot of students have become very lazy.

dats not how to choose a project topic in Nigeria schools. in Nigeria u go-to the Library look for existing project (s) work then copy and paste everything den u submit. if I lie ask dem nairalanders

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Ask your supervisor to give you ten topics and chose the one you like most


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Africanbest:
Go to the school library or department library and collect 5years ago work and change the names

Anyway what do I know

Ma nigga .

KingsJohnson:
Gud evening fellow Nlers, pls we do have a friend dat was posted to Osun State for his one year service to the nation, but due to the fact that Osun falls under one of d dislodged state dis 2018, he is derefore forced to choose within Ondo or Ekiti and he has not been to an of the states and not even know how to find his way to the said states, so behalf of him, we will lyk to know from fellow Nairalanders:

Ondo and Ekiti State NYSC Orientation Camp, which is preferred

How do he find his way to Any if the above named states from Enugu


Which transport company will serve d purpose

Thank you all...

tell your friend to choose Ondo State

As an aspiring researcher/academic, don't just choose a topic based on all of the above alone, also consider these:

Am I solving a problem?
Is the problem I'm solving going to be of benefit to my immediate environment or nation?

Then you should ask yourself:
Have I structured my methods to internationally accepted standards?
Do I have the finances to see this research through?
Can I get the finances to see it through?
How do I get grant/scholarship/fellowship to help in reaching set research outcomes?

Finally, to aspiring PhD students out there ask yourselves these two questions before you choose a supervisor:
Do I know my supervisor very well, behaviour and academic-wise?
Will my supervisor trust me At all times and allow me express myself without intimidating me or feel intimidated?


Thank you

And after all the stress the project will still be dumped in the waste bin at the back of the school.

Thank you, OP, for this piece..

However, I must add that your outline omitted the primary reason of any research work. The main purpose of a research is to solve a problem, that is to contribute to existing knowledge.

When one wants to embark on a scientific study, you must first identify an existing problem that you desire to solve; after this, you are to look at existing literature concerning this problem. This would enable you to appreciate the extent previous researchers have gone in solving this problem...and to avail you with a tool for comparison...

Nigerian students must understand that the purpose of every research is to solve an existing problem...and not to raise your CGPA.

It is sad that corruption and malpractice have infiltrated our education. These days, people stay at home and generate false data in the name of research; or, as someone pointed out above, some students may just reprint a previously done work and submit as project. Because of how short-sighted some students/Nigerians are, they care less of the long term implication of this act. They have no idea that in the future, others may use their so-called findings as foundation for their research. We all know what the outcome would be when the foundation is built on lies.

Until we get this right, we cannot grow as a nation...because national growth, of course, is fueled by research.

Oma307:

tell your friend to choose Ondo State

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But how do he find his way from Enugu to Ondo

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KingsJohnson:
Gud evening fellow Nlers, pls we do have a friend dat was posted to Osun State for his one year service to the nation, but due to the fact that Osun falls under one of d dislodged state dis 2018, he is derefore forced to choose within Ondo or Ekiti and he has not been to an of the states and not even know how to find his way to the said states, so behalf of him, we will lyk to know from fellow Nairalanders:

Ondo and Ekiti State NYSC Orientation Camp, which is preferred

How do he find his way to Any if the above named states from Enugu

Which transport company will serve d purpose

Thank you all...

Bros, are you sure you're a graduate?

Your supervisor first. I had an experience of recent,I chose two topics,my area of interest and the other one, but my supervisor opted for the second option. He tactically rejected and rubbished my interest area. I have the ebook of the image of the book you displayed.