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ARTH 225: Pleasure and Design in Confinement: Japanese Prints In and After Edo

How to Develop Research Questions/Topics

Before you begin the search,
Think about
1) What does the assignment ask you to do? And where your research fits into the topic?
2) What kinds of scholarship available on the topic you are doing research?

--- To understand the types of sources: PRIMARY SOURCES vs SECONDARY SOURCES

3) Are there scholars who disagree about the topic or have different positions about the topic?
THE BEAM MODEL