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.
broad paragraph topic
This depends on your scope and focus of the research.
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.
Broad. very, very broad.
what is broad
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.
a subject that can not be to broad or to narrow
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.
An attack in broad daylight is brazen. Cooking meat is braising it.
Every paragraph in an academic paper or essay must have one driving point or idea behind it. A summary of any one paragraph should thus be able to get at the main point of what the author is trying to say. The summary would be too broad if it tried to express the author's main idea in a roundabout or vague way--that is, in a statement that could describe any number of ideas.
It could be an opening sentence or paragraph that you narrow down with specific evidence in other paragraphs or sentences.