For these questions, you should focus on a specific subfield or area. For this, you will need a couple of published research articles or scholarly articles from your field, e.g., from academic journals. If you don’t have any sample papers to look at, you can go to Google Scholar (
scholar.google.com) and search for particular topics in your field that interest you; also see the website for recommended links. It is okay if you don’t completely understand all the contents, just as long as you can follow the papers’ main ideas.
Write out your answers to the following questions (at least those that are answerable, applicable or relevant for you).