When writing an essay that requires sourced material, how do you navigate all the scholarship out there? My essay is dealing with the effect of place in a certain book, but it's not easy to find scholarship on place in this book. I can find scholarship for other ideas, though. So how do I take general scholarship and apply it to my book? How could I use material from a very broad essay, like "Place in Literature" or "The Effect of Place on Identity"? These are not actual articles, just the kind of general articles I mean rather than, "The Effect of Place on Identity in 19th Century Works". Does this make any sense? HA!