Post 3: Literature-review-ACTIVITIES
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.
- The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It (University of Toronto):
- Literature Reviews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
- How to Write a Literature Reviews (UCSC):
- The literature review (Deakin): http://deakin.libguides.com/c.php?g=558254&p=3840240
- 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):
- Review of literature (UW-Madison):
- The Literature Review (Central Queensland:
- Writing the LR (tips): https://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/lit_rev_write.html (4 sample LRs for different disciplines are included!
- 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?
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