Literature Review Tips

Tina, a first-year doctoral student, nervously scrolled through some research articles. She had just received her first major assignment: writing a comprehensive Review of Related…

The journey of academia is a grand quest for knowledge, more specifically an adventure to find the right information through credible sources, and that’s where scholarly sources…

Literature review is both a process and a product. It involves searching within a defined source of information related to your research topic and then creating a comprehensive…

Researcher 1: “It’s flooding articles every time I switch on my laptop!” Researcher 2: “Why don’t you categorize your downloaded data?” Researcher 1: “I have. But the amount…

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Many a times, I have heard fellow researchers saying that they were unable to find any literature relevant to their research topic. Interestingly, does that mean they are doing…

What is a Dissertation Literature Review? A dissertation literature review is a critical assessment of pertinent literature that has been read and collated by the researcher.  The…

An excellent literature review integrates information in such a way that it provides a new framework to build upon. It is a way of contextualizing your work and showcasing a bigger…

Writing a good literature review is essential for any good research. In our previous articles in this series, we learned about databases used in literature review for life science…