This week’s topics
The Critical Literature Review
- Systematic legal searching techniques
- Synthesizing scholarly debates
- Identifying gaps in existing literature
- Structuring analytical reviews
- Structuring your critical literature review
- Literature Reviews: Moving from description to analysis, synthesis & evaluation
- Steps 2 and 3 of a systematic literature review: Refining and Searching
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Create a structured and thorough critical literature review.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: create a structured and thorough critical literature review.
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
- Steps 2 and 3 of a systematic literature review: Refining and Searching · YouTube · Northumbria University Library · 6 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
- Ten simple rules for structuring 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.
