Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Education and Communications: [header] How to develop interest in research [title] Relate the topic to yourself. [step] The easiest way to develop an interest in research is to look into something that affects you personally, or that will affect your life or one of your interests in some important way. If you're interested in the topic you're researching, you'll enjoy reading and learning about it.

Ending1: Sit in front of a mirror and try to draw pictures in your head of how you respond to situations and settings. If you're doing research to gain experience, this may seem like a guidebook. Ending2: The other option is to reflect on why you're interested in it so you can start to link to it in the future. [substeps] Don't think of it as being something you enjoy. Ending3: [substeps] If you're writing a research paper for a class, your professor may have given you a broad topic. Your project can be any smaller thing within that topic, so try to find something that affects you personally. Ending4: [substeps] For example, you may feel an interest in cancer. You may start a work study of the condition, but reading about the disease right from the start of the study will keep you involved in the research.

Answer format: ending1/ending2/ending3/ending4