This subject provides students with guidance to select a focus for a literature review of research, to plan the review, to find appropriate literature, to review it critically, to record details of references, and to develop an integrated literature review at a quality standard. Students will undertake the literature search, writing and refining of a review of research literature on their topic under the guidance of an allocated supervisor.
HD/FL
One session
School of Education
- the need to write a literature review for a specific purpose; - the different purposes for which academic literature reviews are written; - the different types of literature reviews; - the academic writing style that is appropriate; - the place of primary, secondary and general sources in preparing a literature review; - the importance of conceptualising work (i.e. putting it into a total plan that stems from the reading done); - the need to analyse, evaluate and then synthesize the information that is presented; and - the importance of being critical and not automatically accepting assertions and assumptions in the writings of others.
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