These are often compiled and published in bibliographies, and they also appear at the end of scholarly books to assist those interested in finding further materials on the subject. Potential researches can scan abstracts to see if a source will be useful to them or not without having to locate the source. You will be able to scan the abstracts your classmates post to the forms to see if any relate to your topic. Secondary sources are often critical essays that analyze a work for what it reveals about the culture that produced it. For example, you might encounter an article that addresses the feminist reading of The Woman Warrior or another article on Kingston that addresses the challenges faced by bicultural Americans.
Interviews also shed light on the primary source and can be useful.
These sources are located in academic journals and books found in a library or on an electronic database. A citation is a record of the publication data that enables someone to locate the source. We have one for each author we are studying. You will need a password to access the forum, but you use the same password for all three forums. Our forums are located on the course calendar.