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Nick Sauers

Literature Review Tips: 5 Steps to an Outstanding Paper - Finish Your Thesis - 5 views

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  • Focus on Structure, Then Content, Then Style
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This is really important, but most students don't do this!
  • Even the best writers struggle to communicate their ideas, and rely heavily on the revision process to polish their work.
  • Imagine that good writing is like building a house: you start with the foundation and the basic structure, before adding all the bells and whistles.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      I love this!
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  • Step #2: Do Some Writing Every Day
  • Step #3: Define Your Scope
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      Avoid the kitchen sink approach! More isn't always better.
  • Get a Few Fresh Pairs of Eyes
  • I made the mistake of including too much information, without any synthesis.
  • jarayg on 12 Jul 18
     
    This was a great article!
Nick Sauers

Literature Reviews - The Writing Center UNC - 1 views

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Literature review

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  • Contains your discussion of sources and is organized either chronologically, thematically, or methodologically (see below for more information on each).
  • Thematic: Thematic reviews
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      These are probably the most common for our literature reviews.
  • Select only the most important points in each source to highlight in the review. The type of information you choose to mention should relate directly to the review’s focus, whether it is thematic, methodological, or chronological.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      Too often students use a kitchen sink approach!
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  • Current Situation: Information necessary to understand the topic or focus of the literature review. History: The chronological progression of the field, the literature, or an idea that is necessary to understand the literature review, if the body of the literature review is not already a chronology.
  • Some short quotes here and there are okay, though, if you want to emphasize a point, or if what the author said just cannot be rewritten in your own words.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      Don't get carried away with quotes!
  • but then synthesize it by rephrasing the study’s significance and relating it to their own work.
  • While the literature review presents others’ ideas, your voice (the writer’s) should remain front and center. Notice that Falk and Mills weave references to other sources into their own text, but they still maintain their own voice by starting and ending the paragraph with their own ideas and their own words. The sources support what Falk and Mills are saying.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This is not something you will do as much of in your own work right now. Your voice will come as your work progresses.
  • When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent the author’s information or opinions accurately and in your own words.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This is EXTREMELY important!
Nick Sauers

5. The Literature Review - Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper - Research Gu... - 6 views

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  • Literature reviews are designed to provide an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic and to demonstrate to your readers how your research fits within a larger field of study.
  • but in the social sciences, a literature review usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis, often within specific conceptual categories.
  • Give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old interpretations, Trace the intellectual progression of the field, including major debates, Depending on the situation, evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent or relevant research, or Usually in the conclusion of a literature review, identify where gaps exist in how a problem has been researched to date.
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  • Place each work in the context of its contribution to understanding the research problem being studied.
  • Reveal any gaps that exist in the literature.
  • Third, there are the perceptions, conclusions, opinion, and interpretations that are shared informally that become part of the lore of field. In composing a literature review, it is important to note that it is often this third layer of knowledge that is cited as "true" even though it often has only a loose relationship to the primary studies and secondary literature reviews.
  • Integrative Review
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This most closely aligns with your work.
  • Division of works under review into themes or categories [e.g. works that support a particular position, those against, and those offering alternative approaches entirely],
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      The first two bullets most closely align with your initial work related to a literature review.
  • Sources in your literature review do not clearly relate to the research problem;
  • Thematic [“conceptual categories”]
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This is what most of our students do.
  • Select only the most important points in each source to highlight in the review
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      Don't use the kitchen sink approach!
  • Remember to summarize and synthesize your sources
  • your voice [the writer's] should remain front and center.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      Be careful with this early on in your lit review. As your study develops more fully, so will your voice.
  • When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent the author's information or opinions accurately and in your own words. Even when paraphrasing an author’s work, you still must provide a citation to that work.
  • Data evaluation -- determining which lite
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      You may evaluate some of your literature throughout your review. You may also do this by identifying gaps in the literature.
  • Uncritically accepts another researcher's findings and interpretations as valid,
  • Only includes research that validates assumptions and does not consider contrary findings and alternative interpretations found in the literature.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This is an important point.
Nick Sauers

How to write a literature review · Help & Writing · Concordia University Library - 3 views

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  • Identifies areas of prior scholarship Places each source in the context of its contribution to the understanding of the specific issue, area of research, or theory under review. Describes the relationship of each source to the others that you have selected Identifies new ways to interpret, and shed light on any gaps in, previous research Points the way forward for further research.
    • Nick Sauers
      Nick Sauers on 12 Jul 18
       
      This may be the most comprehensive overview of what a lit review should do.
  • The purpose of the literature review is to provide a critical written account of the current state of research on a selected topic:
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