VIC159 Zombies, Vampires and the Bible

NOTE: This guide is based on special topics course VIC159 as designed and taught by Prof. Mona LaFosse

Reference/Overview Sources

These encyclopedias, companions, handbooks, dictionaries and more are an excellent place to start your research. They provide background information or rich context on specific topics, and:

• are useful for understanding a specific topic, concept, or terminology
• often include bibliographies, suggest related topics or search terms (which can help you search for and find more relevant sources)
   
• Companions and Handbooks feature fuller in-depth articles on topics, and often constitute anthologies on a broad topic (chapters by various scholarly authors on an aspects related to that topic) Depending on your topic/assignment, those fuller chapters can be employed as one of your scholarly sources for reference and citation. In contrast, subject-specific dictionaries and a few other reference (e)books provide short yet reliable/accurate definitions (less than 1000 words would not be suitable as one of your required scholarly sources).