Literature Review
- Research Writing
- Literature Review
- What is a Literature Review?
- What are the different (Three) Phases of Literature Review?
- What are the different steps and strategies followed while writing a Literature review?
- Moves in the Literature review (Structure) – Schematic Structure
- What are the different Standards for doctoral literature reviews (Boote and Beile, 2005)
- How to Read, Summarize, and critique previous studies (Seliger and Shohamy, 1989)
- A Checklist to ensure as to whether a piece of writing is academic or not
- Important factors to consider when evaluating a reference for an academic article / dissertation
- How to organize your literature review and the critics from examiners for your literature review
A Checklist to ensure as to whether a piece of writing is academic or not.
- Is the article peer-reviewed / referred?
- Is the author affiliated with a university?
- Are in-text references used?
- Is there an abstract (for a journal article) and a bibliography?
- Is the bibliography complete
- What does the text look like?
- Is the writing divided into sections such as Introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion and reference list
- Does the writer use the technical language and discuss research that has been done?
- Is the article of reasonable length
- Is the publisher a recognized academic publisher?
- Does the website have an author and/or a date?
- Was the piece of writing recommended by another researcher?