This week’s topics
Conducting a Critical Literature Review
- Systematic search strategies
- Academic source appraisal
- Thematic synthesis
- Citation and referencing conventions
- Structuring your critical literature review
- Literature Reviews: Moving from description to analysis, synthesis & evaluation
- Literature Synthesis 101: How to Synthesise In Your Literature Review - 5 Key Questions (+Examples )
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Evaluate literature relevant to a research problem.
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
- Literature Synthesis 101: How to Synthesise In Your Literature Review - 5 Key Questions (+Examples ) · YouTube · Grad Coach · 11 min · for registered students
Further resources
- How to perform a literature review with free and open source software · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
- Questioning CRAAP: a comparison of source evaluation methods with first-year undergraduat… · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
- Points of reference: Changing patterns of academic citation · 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.
