Answer: At the beginning of researching a topic, the most important thing to do is to <u>stay focused and always remember the topic you were given.</u>
Explanation:
Researching requires the person writing a paper to be focused on the task at hand. You need to always check your sources and remember to not go off the topic given. Many times, people will research the topic and get onto another topic and spend valuable time needed reading on another needed.
Example: Looking for pictures of plants in the dessert and instead looking at pictures of plants in Hawaii. This is an example of going off topic.
The other answers aren't dispustes over property which is what the question is asking, so even though they are examples of disputes, they aren't examples of disputes the question is asking for
