BACKGROUND

What is ‘background information’?

It’s reading up on the subject before you make too many decisions about how you’re going to approach your research.It introduces you to a topic before you dive in, pretending to be an expert.

You wouldn’t start to build a house without a floor plan, would you?

Surely, you wouldn’t cook a seven course meal without checking on the ingredients

you need?

For both building a house and preparing an

elaborate meal, planning is essential.

Why is background information important?

1.It helps you to focus on names, dates, events, organizations, terms, etc., associated with a topic.2. It can help you to formulate/reformulate your topic3. Background sources might include bibliographies that you can use to find additional sources for your project.

HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE BACKGROUND?

Avoid technical terms.Avoid abbreviations.Use simple sentences.Avoid common errors of punctuation and grammar.

HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE BACKGROUND?

Use the first person (I, we) rather than the passive voice.

Link your ideas into a sensible sequence without repetitions or discontinuities.

Get feedback on your article from colleagues.

EXAMPLES OF BACKGROUND

LORD OF THE FLIESThe book indicates

that it takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader

Most appear never to have encountered one another before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisical country, far from modern civilisation, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state.

At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting impulses toward civilization—live by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and towards the will to power.

Themes include the tension between

groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. How these play out, and how different people feel the influences of these, form a major subtext of Lord of the Flies.

OF MICE AND MEN

A novella written by

John Steinback

and published

in 1937

Steinbeck won the nobel price in

literature in 1962 “for realistic and

imaginative writings,

combining as they do sympathetic

humour and keen social perception”

The novella takes place on a farm after the Great Depression, where migrant

workers George and Lennie have come to be farm hands.

George Milton has cared for his mentally slow friend, Lennie Small, since the death of Lennie's

Aunt Clara. They travel together to work a various amount of jobs so that one day they

will have enough money to live on their own and be their own bosses.

Unfortunately, every time they have a

job, Lennie gets into some trouble which forces them to run

away. This time, they are running

from a town called Weed to a ranch where they could

work as ranch hands.

TITANIC

DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHEN THE TITANIC

STARTED ITS TRIP?

The trip started in Southampton, England

on 10 April 1912 andshe was going to New

York City.

White Star Line was the company that built Titanic and was owned by J.P. Morgan, an American tycoon.

The cost to build the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was

$7.5 million.

Price of single first-class ticket was $4.700.

(equals $50.000 in today’s economy)

It took two years with 3000 men to build The Titanic.

Three million rivets held its massive hull together.

“This ship in unsinkable, even God Himself can’t sink it!” screamed the newspaper headlines just before the Titanic sailed off on its maiden voyage.

Only five days later leaving Southampton,The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912.

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU THINK TO DIE AFTER THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT ?

About 1500 people died and most of

them froze to death.

About 1500 people died and most of

them froze to death.

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