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…

This is the second in a series of articles that discusses the different databases used in literature review and how they are important to your research and writing. Part I…