Every work needs a plan, approach, and method that clarifies its topic, stages, and objectives. Since research in the humanities, like other sciences, needs a methodology to be followed to achieve the aspirations of those involved in it, and to overcome the obstacles that those coming to graduate each year may face, perhaps the most important of which is the first step of choosing a research topic that is acceptable to the supervisor with scientific conditions, and the second step, which is the difficulty of choosing a supervisor, which we noticed among our students in the Departments of Arabic Language and Literature and Sociology. This is what we noticed among our students in the Departments of Arabic Language and Literature and Sociology; therefore, the educational necessity called us to take the hands of our students in this field to provide them with some scientific guidance, which we hope will show them how to overcome these difficulties in accordance with the academic scientific curricula, as we found among some of those interested in the field of research methods and investigation. Research is an intellectual activity in which the researcher directs his mental energy to answer some questions, or reveal through it some mysterious issues to achieve a goal that he had initially planned, but the research is not realized or completed unless its owner is armed with a set of methods and techniques, and this is what prompted many of those interested in the methods to try to define them and lay their foundations. We do not claim here to present them all or surround them, as this would require a lot of time, but we would like to quickly benefit our students; who are on the threshold of completing their graduation memoranda with these methodological guidelines on how to choose the topic and the supervisor; because we have seen in the field that our students suffer in both matters, with what they propose in terms of topics, and what they find difficult in choosing the supervisor, and the consequences of their poor choices, which results in issues in which the student spends a long time he needs most to complete his memo and graduate like the students of his cohort.

selection, research, researcher, research topic, methodology.