FYHS-111: A Journey to St. Petersburg, Russia: A City of Transformations

Beginning your research with reference resources helps you discover background information like terminology, central figures and dates and an overview of existing literature on your topic. Look for:

• Definitions of key terms
• Historical context
• Biographical information
• Critical interpretation of texts
• Bibliographies detailing relevant scholarship

Starter Resources are very broad-based, general resources that are used only in the earliest stages of research when the researcher is seeking an overview of a topic or is attempting to narrow an overly broad topic.  In the context of college-level research assignments, they are merely gateway resources and as such, should not be used in place of in-depth, substantive sources.

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