HON 296a: Academic Research

What are the three most appropriate Library of Congress Classifications for the topic you are most likely to research? Find the narrowest, most specific classifications that you can by using the browse function of the NCSU Library catalog or by using the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

In your commentary, please tell how you found these classifications and explain why you think they are appropriate for the topic you will probably be researching (tell us what that is).

When reflecting on the process, you might discuss one or more of these questions, or anything else that's on your mind: How close is your major (your academic discipline) to these classifications? Does your topic have a lot of "scatter" -- in other words, does your topic fit into several academic disciplines? Does it really fit well into any discipline? Are you thinking about several different topics to research? How different are those topics from each other? Is there anything weird or inadequate about these classifications? What might be the reason for that?

Please submit your assignment as a comment to this post before 3pm on Monday, 1/29.