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Category Archives: literature review
I’m writing a journal article – what literatures do I choose?
I’m often asked about the literatures sections of journal articles. Not your literatures based paper of course but your standard empirical paper. They only want a short section! I can’t cram everything I’ve read into a few paragraphs – how … Continue reading
getting to grips with new literatures
Over time all researchers build a knowledge base about their key interests. A large part of this knowledge is a core set of literatures. They/we do need to keep up to date, but they/we can rely on – and use … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Endnote, literature mapping, literature review, literature reviews, note-taking
Tagged literature work, noting, Pat Thomson
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keeping up with the literatures – preliminary sorting is key
This post is in response to a question about how to keep on top of what is being published I found out early on that academic work required finding ways to deal with a load of information. My undergraduate honours … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, Browzine, literature review, reading
Tagged categorising, keeping up with literatures, Literatures, Pat Thomson, reading, selecting, sorting
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orientations to reading – the literature as ‘resources’
Everyone knows that doing research means doing lots of reading. And that Reading leads to literature reviews which are crucial to research proposals, theses and papers. The most common way to think about working with the literatures is to use … Continue reading
writing a journal article – how many references?
I’ve been asked about how many references go in the literature section of a journal article. A supervisor had offered a view – one reference per sentence is best, perhaps two. But, the person asking me said, they had seen papers … Continue reading
Posted in academic writing, citation, citations, journal article, literature review
Tagged citations, journal article, Pat Thomson, references
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getting ready to write about “the literature”
You’ve all heard that the doctorate is about making an original contribution To the literature. Well, that’s right, although what that means is not nearly as scary as it sounds. What you may not be told is that doing a … Continue reading
why is writing a literature review such hard work? part one
Yes, a literature review means reading a lot. Yes, a literature review means sorting out how to bring the texts all together, summarising and synthesising them. And yes, there are lots of ways to do this. But this post is … Continue reading
quick lit – rapid evidence reviewing
This is one of a very occasional set of posts about some of my own academic work that you might find useful. A colleague and I have just undertaken what is called in the (academic) trade a Rapid Evidence Review. … Continue reading
starting the PhD – digging in to the reading
Most people begin their PhDs by reading. That’s because planned research needs to build on what’s already out there, using what’s been done in order to spell out the expected contribution to knowledge. There are various ways to start getting … Continue reading
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Tagged digging in, literature work, Pat Thgomson, reading, starting the PhD
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