Literature Review: Why? Set’s the scene for your research Provide the reader with information on: Main theories and ideas within the area Previous research.

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Literature Review: Why? Set’s the scene for your research Provide the reader with information on: Main theories and ideas within the area Previous research findings within the area Criticisms, limitations, missing information Justification for your research

Literature Review : Good / Bad

At the beginning of your research project (very important for the deductive approach) When you have your first results (very important for the inductive approach) Literature Review: When?

Literature search – mechanics of finding, sorting, managing the material Literature review (reading and writing aspects) – understanding, critical evaluation, conceptualisation and presentation of the material Integration into your report: (i) single section, (ii) distributed. Three Stages

Searching Reading Note taking, highlighting and summarising Critical evaluation and creating links Draught structure Write it ! Literature Review: How to!

Search peer-reviewed journals, academic books, refereed conference papers (2ndary) Login to SOLE and use –Library catalogue for books –Library e-Resources for online journals and databases, e.g., ACM Digital Library Academic Search Premier Cambridge Journals How to find Sources

Highlight chunks of text and label Write key points / words Maintain a global list of key points / words (to synthesize) Summarising

What is new in this piece of work? How does it contribute to the body of knowledge? What is good / bad about this piece of work? Does it link in with other pieces of work I have read? Does it cite significant other works I have read Does it cite other works which are often cited? Critical Evaluation

Making Links Feature mapTable which groups your thoughts into categories Concepts mapLinks between concepts or ideas TreesShows how topic branches into sub- topic and related questions. Can show stages in a topic’s development.

If you are interested in attending a workshop on using e-resources and electronic data base searching and/or using referencing software, please contact: Stephanie Allen, Help from ILS

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