Which task is a part of narrowing down a subject for a paper? creating a plan for writing the paper deciding on the scope of the topic searching for research sources organizing researched data

creating a plan for writing the paper
deciding on the scope of the topic
searching for research sources
organizing researched data

I want to say your answer will be option
"Deciding on the scope of the topic"
In order to write a paper, you need a topic or theme.

Option
creating a plan for writing the paper
searching for research sources
organizing researched data

Will only be useful to proceed to do if you know what or whom you are writing about 

Hey, wym?

You are just having a bad day, so dont do anything stup.id to urself and i hope you feel better :)