Woolf Judith. Writing About Literature: Essay and Translation Skills for University Students of English and Foreign Literature

NY: Routledge, 2005. — 153 p.Introduction.
Reading.
Texts and their contexts.
Critical reading.
Reading the critics.
Background reading.
Research.
Looking things up.
Dictionaries.
Biblical references.
Classical references.
Oral literature.
General knowledge.
Trusting the author.
Libraries and librarians.
Searching on-line.
Using Google.
Serendipity.
Essay topics.
Choosing your own topic.
Set topics and exam questions.
The desert island essay.