Overview The literature review is your opportunity to convince a larger academic audience that your own research project will contribute something new to an existing body of research. Put another way, your lit review reveals where you will contribute to existing theory. It carves a path for you as a scholar into an existing academic conversation/debate. […]
Literature Review Tips
One thing that you can try for your literature review, is to use index cards. Don’t use them for the summary of all the author’s details. Instead, use them to create a map of what key concepts the author brings to the table, what theory they use or develop to explain their ideas, and what […]