There are times you'll want to use books and other times articles. Knowing what resources works best for your project is important. Books tend to work better in the following instances:
- Working with a broad overview of a topic--World War II is a good book topic; the German war cemeteries on Normandy is a good article topic;
- Small entries within a work that covers a large topic--think dictionaries, encyclopedias, and commentaries here; though you may my writing on just John chapter 3, you'll still find a commentary on John will be easier to use (and find) than an article on John 3;
- Some topics have more book written on them than articles--it used to be that academic journals didn't have much written on Tolkien or his Lord of the RIngs; you simply could find more in books than in articles.
