Post-4: Getting-acquainted-with-the-literature-review

To complete this course you need to write a brief literature review on the topic of your course paper. It should be based on the discussion of 3-4 articles you have collected for your course paper and contain 600-650 words. You should demonstrate your understanding of the topic area your course paper is devoted to and the connection between various sources you have chosen to review. You will be assessed on how thorough and detailed your literature review is and how well you have managed to find the connection b/w various resources you have selected for your work. In addition, the criteria common for the assessment of written works will be used as well. They include the mechanics of writing, vocabulary use and style.
Here is a list of resources for you to get acquainted with how to write your literature review better and what to take into account:
What you should do today then is choose one of the resources from those listed below, get acquainted with them and share the summary of the points you will have read with your peers.
  1. The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It (University of Toronto): 
  2. Literature Reviews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): 
  3. How to Write a Literature Reviews (UCSC): 
  4. The literature review (Deakin): http://deakin.libguides.com/c.php?g=558254&p=3840240  
  5. Software tools for a literature review: A tutorial that explains how mind maps, pdf readers and reference managers can be used to a literature review (see first part of the tutorial):
  6. Review of literature (UW-Madison): 
  7. The Literature Review (Central Queensland:
  8.  Writing the LR (tips): https://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/lit_rev_write.html (4 sample LRs for different disciplines are included!
  9. Here is a sample LR we are going to read and discuss NEXT time (6.12.2018) http://www4.caes.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/examples/litex3.htm

Publish your work in the thread. Read the other students’ comments to learn more about vaious aspects of writing your literature review.

Further activities:

Choose an article from your course paper reading list and analyse a Literature Review presented in it.

Consider the following features:
1. Content
2. Organisation
3. References:
a) what sources have been used: variety? scope?
b) how many?
c) additional observations?

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 21, 2018 at 11:43 PM

    I am going to review "Software tools for a literature review"

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 12:00 AM

      Great! Good luck! Looking forward to reading your review

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    2. UnknownNovember 22, 2018 at 12:35 AM

      Here's the link to the summary/review.
      https://medvedevan.blogspot.com/2018/11/useful-software-for-academic-writing.html

      Delete
  2. UnknownNovember 21, 2018 at 11:47 PM

    How to Write a Literature Reviews (UCSC)

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 12:01 AM

      Hello, Polina,
      thanks for letting us know. Good luck. Hope you'll find it useful.

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    2. UnknownNovember 25, 2018 at 5:28 AM

      Here is the link to my summary:
      https://polinagordeeva.blogspot.com/2018/11/getting-acquainted-with-literature.html#more

      Delete
  3. AnonymousNovember 21, 2018 at 11:47 PM

    I took the first one(The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It (University of Toronto)

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 12:03 AM

      Thank you for letting us know. It'd be interesting for us to read what you will have learned from this resource

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    2. AnonymousNovember 24, 2018 at 4:10 AM

      Here is the link to my summary:
      https://dashalaricheva.blogspot.com/2018/11/post-4-getting-acquainted-with.html

      Delete
  4. UnknownNovember 21, 2018 at 11:48 PM

    The literature review (Deakin)

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  5. UnknownNovember 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM

    'The Literature Review' by Central Queensland University

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 12:04 AM

      Thanks. Hope you will find it useful

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    2. UnknownNovember 22, 2018 at 12:41 AM

      Here's a link to the summary. https://alexandersizykh.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-literature-review-provided-by-central.html

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  6. Anastasia MushenkoNovember 22, 2018 at 1:02 AM

    Review of literature (UW-Madison): https://ictamush.blogspot.com/2018/11/httpswriting.html#comment-form

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  7. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 1:07 AM

    Dear All, when doing Further Activity which you can find in the end of my post above, pay attention to the Reference List that accompanies the article and check how many references it has, what the dates of publication of the majority of articles are, what journals they were published in (here, check whether or not they're peer-reviewed).

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 22, 2018 at 1:12 AM

      Here is a clear explanation of what types of academic journals exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal and what distinguishes them. I'd advise you to look through this for better understanding what kind of journals are more suitable to use for research

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  8. UnknownNovember 25, 2018 at 9:45 PM

    I have chosen "Review of literature (UW-Madison)":

    https://o-prasolova16604.blogspot.com/2018/11/summary-3-literature-review.html

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  9. Alina SemyonovaDecember 5, 2018 at 3:05 AM

    Review of literature (UW-Madison)
    Here is the link to my summary: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7054229735673238844#editor/target=post;postID=5666537899517005487;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname

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  10. UnknownDecember 5, 2018 at 6:40 PM

    I have done summary to the source “Literature Reviews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)”
    You can read it over there: https://bit.ly/2Qjgzdd

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  11. Vlada KoshelevaDecember 6, 2018 at 12:27 AM

    www4.caes.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/sample.htm

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