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Shmoop may not be an expert on love or major league baseball statistics. But if there’s one thing we do know, it’s the internet. Oh, and research. And classic literature. Hey, looks like we are experts after all!


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Thank you We sneak in How do you show up

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to conduct research I'll wash up All right Say you're

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reading a book for class and need to produce an

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essay Or even mohr interdisciplinary lee a project Well where

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do you begin Well you might think about starting out

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in the interwebs where you do all your most pertinent

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hard core academic research searching that's a bit like being

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out in the interwebs without a paddle No for all

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things academic we option most your first stop for research

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or at least one of them you know about all

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the great things we offer you a shmoop land here

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learning guides flashcards essay lads nesta but we also have

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a special best of the web section that curates important

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information from around the web so let's hear it You're

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shmoop the fingertips so you don't have to brave the

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rapids and rabbit holes of the interweb I won't All

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right so let's say for example you've been reading narrative

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of the life of frederick douglass in class and need

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to write a paper on frederick douglass life Well start

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over trump's learning guide and read the materials we have

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About the book itself Then navigate over to the best

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of the web tab for this and every other book

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and topic we've schmuck we provide links to all high

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quality material That's passed the test of the master teachers

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and phd students who wrote these particular section in cases

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where the text itself is no longer on the copyright

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We linked to the entire text itself willing to biographical

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information on the author photos and lot of other stuff

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and all our materials air drawn from reputable sources places

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like pbs national historical sides colleges and universities way give

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you the building blocks you need to conduct your research

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including historical documents for analysis in this case frederick douglass

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entire collection of papers at the library of congress You

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can also find more by searching for keywords in from

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of search bar on the top right hand corner of

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many pages In our frederick douglass example you'll find more

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resource is in shmoop us history learning guys on reconstruction

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abolitionist and closet of the civil war Keep in mind

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that for every learning guide we have there's another best

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of the web tab so mosey on over to that

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And see what else is related in this case under

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historical documents they're even more firsthand source documents for you

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When you're ready to start drafting your essay can head

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on over to the s a lab and create your

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essay from start to finish Shmoop will save it for

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you in your profile and you'll be able to return

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to it and ended up as well as downloaded as

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a pdf or a text document at your leisure Oh

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that's quick rundown on how you get started using shmoop

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best of the web way know that the interwebs were

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like rabbit holes or in some cases shmoop holes so

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visit us for us to be sure you dive down

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into the correct ones when you're getting started on research

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It's a big internet out there and best aware you're

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shmoop if you have any questions go ahead and paying

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us its support at shmoop dot com we're not champion

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