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Writing the Literature Review

Writing the Literature Review. Source: Effective Writing Center, University of Maryland. What the Literature Review IS NOT?. Not an essay/paper Not state or prove your main points

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Writing the Literature Review

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  1. Writing the Literature Review Source: Effective Writing Center, University of Maryland

  2. What the Literature Review IS NOT? • Not an essay/paper • Not state or prove your main points LR does not state, prove, illustrate, incorporate or develop your main points, that is in the body of your essay. LR does not do that it does not provide the body or development of sections of your essay or research paper.

  3. What the Literature Review is • Major works • Narrow topic • Reviewed

  4. What is a “Reviewed?” • Snapshots • Major concepts • Relationships • Timeline

  5. Why are you doing “The Literature Review”? Purposes of doing LR: • Improve understanding • Demonstrate knowledge • Update reader.

  6. “Updating Readers” What do old friends do? (what have the narrow topic has been studied in the past?) • “Fill me in” • “Bring me up to date” You are bringing them along that timeline of the past, letting them know the key elements of the major concepts or the key elements in your life. And once you are there, then you can start writing the the present situation or your present life. And that is the dividing line between the LR and the rest of your paper of the development. You go all of their ideas of the past scholars, of the past researchers, and then, come your idea, your present life.

  7. How to “Read” Literatures Source: Lawrence Neuman, second edition

  8. Reading and skimming the articles Relate what you read to your own narrow topic and organize those ideas Evaluate the article and summarize information

  9. How to “Record” Literatures Source: Lawrence Neuman, second edition

  10. Process of Note-taking and documentation of your literatures Taking notes • What to record • Organize notes Hand-written note on a photocopied document

  11. What does a good review look like? Source: Lawrence Neuman, second edition

  12. Good Review • Planning • Clear writing (which of course requires a lot of rewriting) • Keep your purposes in mind when you are and communicate clearly and effectively. Bad/Wrong Review • Listing a series of research reports with a summary of the findings of each. • This fails to communicate a sense of purpose.

  13. Example of Bad and Good Review

  14. Where to find research literature? Source: Lawrence Neuman, second edition

  15. Sources of Research Literatures • Periodicals • Scholarly Journals • Books • Dissertations • Government Documents • Policy Reports and Presented Papers

  16. Documentation Source: Unknown (from CDRI course 2011)

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