A broad topic has literally thousands of articles on it, and you won't be able to adequately cover it in your paper. It will be far easier for you to research and write your paper if you develop a strong, focused research question:
Do some exploratory research on the population you're interested in and your research area.
Ask yourself questions about your topic idea. What concepts, issues, or other aspects of this population and research area interest you? What have people said about it? What gaps, contradictions, or concerns arise as you learn more about it? What relationships are there between different aspects of the topic?
Focus your topic: Use the information from your exploratory research to identify a few of the specific aspects that interest you and then use the questions you had about those to create your focused research question.
Choose a current topic: Your goal is to summarize and evaluate current findings of an area of research. Pick a research topic about which articles are continuing to be published. Avoid defunct or little-known areas of research.
Write about what interests you: Professors want students to write about topics that they care about. If you're interested in the topic, it will be more fun for you to write your paper and probably more fun for your professor to read it, too.
Ask Professor Forsythe-Brown for her feedback on your research question.
Example
General topic: Muslim immigrants and identity
Do some preliminary research: I search for articles about Muslim immigrants and identity to identify what most interests me
Focus your topic: I write down specific populations, issues, locations that interest me, such as second generation, Arab Muslims, Turkish Muslims, gender identity, religious identity, social support, United States, Europe
Focused Research Question: What influences the development of gender identity among second-generation Arab Muslim immigrants?
