practical guide to researching crime fiction
So you’ve got to research the genre of Crime Fiction? ... Because if you have it wouldn’t take you long to realize that researching isn’t like it was before and in the context of our topic, researching Crime Fiction for ‘your’ HSC in this case. RESEARCHING: For 6 years now from yrs7-12 the task of researching a topic has been endless and constant. Since yr7 progressive assignments have been given and researching is more than likely an involved task. ... ‘Researching the Genre of Crime Fiction.’ Not as easy as you may think, let’s take the internet for example, try typing ‘Crime Fiction’, ‘Genre of Crime Fiction’, ‘Crime’ in your search browser. ... Those basics being that of the definition of what ‘genre’ is, and of course then insight into ‘the beginning’, the start, the evolution of crime fiction. ... The genre of crime fiction has mystery as its key element. So as such, the implied rules, and identified forms of the crime fiction genre is that of mystery and that set by the father of crime writing Sir Edgar Allan Poe. ... Personally I would advice you to take CAREFUL note of that, because as you may not be aware, those above facts on the author, novel, year and character are as such the basic elements and ‘key’ starting points to help you and greatly assist you with your research on the Genre of Crime Fiction.