Sources

[shortstoryfan]

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!

[Pryderi Agni]

Um, well, you quote the work in the biblio, and you indicate the specific part you've used in your paper in footnotes or the notes in the end.

[ScottyOhara]

It makes a bit of sense. When citing a source in MLA one must do so like this: THIS IS MY SENTENCE (Source (Should be authors last name) and page number where you found info).
so it ends up looking like this: THIS IS MY SENTENCE (O'Hara 2).

It is not of the utmost importance that you find a scholarly work. Just be sure that you do not use wikipedia as a source.