The first difficulty that I encountered was that I did not know what topic to choose for my research.  I even looked through some of the previous readings that we were assigned for some inspiration.  After I finally got a grasp on what I wanted my topic to be the next problem was coming up with the question.  The main problem was that my question seemed too open ended and Reading chapter 2 & 3 of Badke helped somewhat with that problem. One question I have about the assignment is how recent should our sources be? so that I can know what time frame to search.