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McNair Scholars: Starting Your Search

This guide serves as a tool to assist McNair Scholars as they navigate their research.

Download Your Own Mind Map

Mind Mapping

It's amazing to have a topic that you're interested in and has questions for you to dig through and discover answers or hypothesis for! It's the first step in this whole research game, so yay you for coming up with that!

What do you do next?

We encourage using a tool we call a Mind Map to help you explore your topic further. Not only will it help you focus your topic, but it may also help you figure out what it is you're REALLY interested in. Below you'll see a sample of the Mind Map in use with the topic, climate change. Below the example find a link to a Mind Map PDF (example included) to download and make your own!

Mind Map Example on Climate Change

Useful Video Tutorials