This week’s topics
Critical Literature Review
- Academic database search strategies
- Theoretical and conceptual framework development
- Critical synthesis of peer-reviewed literature
- Identification of research gaps
- Structuring your critical literature review
- Literature Synthesis 101: How to Synthesise In Your Literature Review - 5 Key Questions (+Examples )
- Theoretical Framework vs Conceptual Framework In Research: Simple Explainer (With Examples)
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Critically appraise literature relevant to the chosen research context.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically appraise literature relevant to the chosen research context.
Study materials
Videos
- Structuring your critical literature review · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 10 min · for registered students
- Literature Synthesis 101: How to Synthesise In Your Literature Review - 5 Key Questions (+Examples ) · YouTube · Grad Coach · 11 min · for registered students
- Theoretical Framework vs Conceptual Framework In Research: Simple Explainer (With Examples) · YouTube · Grad Coach · 9 min · for registered students
- How To Write A Literature Review | Research Project Tutorial · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 16 min · for registered students
Further resources
- How to perform a literature review with free and open source software · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
- Principles of Sociological Inquiry, ch. 4: Beginning a Research Project · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 37–50 · for registered students
- How to read a paper · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
