Who was william shakespeare? read the topic question about william shakespeare. which of these best explains why the topic is inappropriate for a short researched essay paper? a) too broad b) too narrow c) cannot be researched or proven eliminate d) requires personal opinion, no analysis or conclusions

I believe that C, “cannot be reserached or proven” is the correct answer. This is because research papers require the writer to gather information about a topic, to provide their opinion about it and to provide solid evidence for that position.  You can not prove Whilliam Shakespeare, you can prove why you think he is the best writer in the world, for instance, but you can not proove him. That is, if you decided to conduct said analysis, you would be able to gather information about the writer, take stand with regard to  his life, but you would be unable to prove anything. Reserach papers’ goal is to account for what you are stating. Therefore, that is why I think sentence C is the best explaining why the topic question is inappropriate to write said piece of paper.  With a topic question such as the one asked, all that you could do is to write a biography about Shakespeare.  

D is also suitable, but it is not the BEST explaining why the topic question is inappropriate. However correct the answer can be since the topic question does not require analysis or conclusions, you could include your personal opinion. B is not right since the answer to that question would be anything but narrow. You’d be able to write one page but also hundreds of it you wanted as it is best to write an essay about the writer but not a RESEARCH paper.  This is also why I think A is not the one. Obviously, the topic is too broad but this feature is not best explaining the topic’s inappropriatness.  

the answer is A

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