Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Literature review

Be a critical consumer.

Hypotheses flows from literature review. Guided tour through the literature leading toward patterns and themes in the literature. Then bridge the literature review to your study questions using about a paragraph "the missing paragraph". Flow is huge.

Which comes first: Literature review or research question? Both rely on the other.

Look at the review articles to see good literature reviews of an area. Review articles don't have original data, they just summarize the literature.

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