Cooking is a broad general topic when you use it to refer to "ways of preparing food". When used to refer to using boiling water to prepare food specifically, it's a narrow topic.
A limited paragraph topic will take a broad topic and narrow it down to a very specific topic. An example of a broad topic to narrow topic transition would be the topic cooking narrowed down to the topic cooking a roast.
A broad topic is one that is very general and includes a lot of information. You want to avoid trying to write about broad topics in an essay or report, because you would not be able to fit all the information in - you'd have to write a book to explain a broad topic!For example, "Topics" is too broad a topic to write a paragraph about - "What does a broad topic mean?" is a good, narrow topic that I can easily write a good answer for!
Let's think this through, shall we? Cooking ... can you divide it down into categories? Well, there's cooking from every different country ... there's slow-cooking ... there's BBQ cooking ... there's cooking in the microwave ...I would say it is a BROAD category!If your category can be divided into many smaller groups, it is broad; if it cannot be divided at all, or just into one or two groups, it is limited or narrow.
Glass is a fairly broad topic - you might want to narrow it down to one particular type of glass unless you are writing about how glass is formed or another broad, general subject like that.
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Broad. very, very broad.
The broad overall topic for a piece of literature is known as the "theme".
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That is a very broad topic, not only because Russia covers a lot of land and has millions of people, but also because its histroy has gone on for a long time. A limited topic within that broad topic might be national elections in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.
It refers to information on no particular subject, or very broad information on a very general topic. General information on the government of a country is an example. You wouldn't expect to get the latest news headlines, but information on the general structure and functions of the government.
no its actually a great topic to talk on for a topic sentence!
"Travel" is broad - "my trip to the beach" is a narrow topic.