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Audience: individuals pursuing or preparing to pursue research

Purpose: share knowledge from someone who has already done research about the importance of producing a literature review Goal: help create a strong foundation of do's and donts of a literature review

LITERATURE REVIEW

once you figure out your question, you need to refine ur research with literature from others

SOURCES

primary source is most highly respected → autobiographies, gov docs, letters, photos and videos, speeches

secondary sources are reworks of primary sources → biographies, dictionaries, reviews and textbooks

systematic review uses particular methods to search for research vs narrative review summarises literature without conforming a search formula

power in reading a variety of sources

LITERATURE REVIEW SHOULD TELL A STORY- NOT A LIST

synthesise (bring things together, relate them and form something new) & analyse

OUTLINE ISSUE AT BEGINNING, ANALYSE AND SYNTHESIS IN MIDDLE, TIE UP END WITH SUMMARY DIFFERENCES AND DILEMMAS AND Q'S

build interest in the area

"where there is a difference, where there is agreement, where one idea leads to the other"

SURVEY entire piece for key parts

QUESTIONS about what u want to find

READ pieces u marked in more detail

RECALL notes of importance

CRITICAL AWARENESS→ key thing about studying is your attitude to knowledge rather than the amount of knowledge" not everything you hear or read is true, nor should u agree with everything