Literary research including overviews, criticism, and overviews, from academic journals and scholarly ebooks. Includes full text ebooks of literary classics.
A fully searchable Library of literary works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, key criticism and reference resources.
Why Conduct Background Research?
To gain familiarity with your topic.
To narrow your topic by finding specific aspects on which to focus.
This tutorial will examine how to: 1) Differentiate between background research and in-depth research. 2) Locate useful sources for conducting background research. 3) Utilize background research to help you refine your paper topic.
