Why use books for research?
Books containing scholarly work provide:
- Well established ideas about a topic
- Contents that are often written by experts
- Background information
- Overview of big issues
- Bibliographies, or list of sources that you find and use.
- Locate relevant information in books quickly by browsing through the table of contents or by using the index to find precisely what you need.
Review: Search the catalog and limit to books
1. Search Ishiguro.
2. Try Ishiguro biograph* (use of the asterisk is called truncation)
3. Ebooks and print boooks (Call Number Locator)
4. InterLibrary Loan
5. Cite and share (permalink)
6. Try Ishiguro critic*
7. Try Ishiguro AND critic* AND A Pale View of Hills
8. Save a list of sources and email.
History in context
Ishiguro was born in 1954. His work is often subtly or overtly placed in pre and post-war Britain and Japan.
A Handbook to Literature
What is the literary term "motif?"