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From Topic to Thesis: A Guide to Theological Research is unavailable, but you can change that!

While courses in Bible and theology typically require research papers, particularly at the graduate level, very few include training in research. Professors have two options: use valuable class time to teach students as much as they can, or lower their standards with the understanding that students cannot be expected to complete tasks for which they have never been prepared. From Topic to Thesis:...

yourself being pulled in different directions by the issues being emphasized in the sources, and you need to remember that a research paper is not an opportunity to read random articles on all the topics that interest you. But at any point along the way, your research may lead you in a direction you were not previously aware of, and that is permissible. Simply keep in mind three things: that your goal is to narrow your topic, not broaden it, that this particular assignment has a deadline, and that
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