Step 5: Summarize the literature in table or concept map format
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.
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but in the social sciences, a literature review usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis, often within specific conceptual categories.
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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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Literature Reviews - The Writing Center UNC - 1 views
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Contains your discussion of sources and is organized either chronologically, thematically, or methodologically (see below for more information on each).
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Thematic: Thematic reviews
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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.
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