This week’s topics
Critical Literature Reviewing
- Systematic search strategies
- Critical evaluation of peer-reviewed sources
- Synthesis and thematic structuring
- Academic referencing standards and integrity
- Structuring your critical literature review
- Literature Reviews: Moving from description to analysis, synthesis & evaluation
- Writing critically, what it means to be critical and how to do it
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Evaluate literature relevant to a research problem.
- 4.2 Create a research question, literature review and methodology.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate literature relevant to a research problem.
Study materials
Videos
- Structuring your critical literature review · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 10 min · for registered students
- Literature Reviews: Moving from description to analysis, synthesis & evaluation · YouTube · cecile badenhorst · 14 min · for registered students
- Writing critically, what it means to be critical and how to do it · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 14 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
- Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading papers · Reading · 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.
