Category: Review of literature
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Types of literature review
One of the most common problems I see when supervising research students is that they approach the literature review as if it were a neutral, generic, and almost mechanical academic exercise. They assume that a literature review simply means reading a large number of papers, summarising what other scholars have said, arranging those summaries into…
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Challenges confronting beginning researchers in conducting literature reviews
Conducting literature review is a complicated, sometimes confusing and laborious process that beginning educational researchers, especially graduate students, often find challenging. However, in the past these challenges were hardly considered, but in more recent times they have been increasingly considered by various faculties and graduate schools due to the expanding needs from growing enrolments. To…
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Critically review of literature in 11 steps
1. Select a language of publication 2. Select a geographical areFinda(e.g. China, Spain, Italy, Europe…) 3. Publication period (e.g. 2008-2012) 4. Choose literature type (e.g. academic journals) 5. Find keywords (e.g. “labor satisfaction”) 6. Search relevant information (e.g. in Google scholar) 7. Read a realistic number of documents (e.g. 10) 8. Summarize them in your…