Wednesday, 10 January 2018

citations - Is it acceptable to cite a textbook for basic background in a master's thesis?


There's one theoretical concept I feel I need to explain briefly in the literature review portion of my MA thesis, but it's very slightly tangential and I don't want to spend more than a paragraph on it. A textbook provides the most all-encompassing, thumbnail sketch of this concept, which would allow me to explain it while citing a single source rather than three or four journal articles.


Would it be déclassé to use a textbook as a reference in a MA thesis for this purpose?




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