Write a Killer Literature Review

Master the art of writing a literature review with practical tools and insights. Perfect for graduate students and faculty to enhance their academic projects.

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Brief Summary

This friendly workshop makes writing a literature review less stressful! It walks you through finding your research gap, synthesizing existing studies, and gives you cool tips on organizing everything. In just an hour, you’ll feel totally ready to tackle that part of your thesis or dissertation.

Key Points

  • What a literature review is and its role in your academic work.
  • How to synthesize research and find connections in existing studies.
  • The importance of identifying the gap in the literature.
  • Tools and techniques for organizing your review.
  • Asking the right questions to guide your reading and writing.

Learning Outcomes

  • Gain a clear understanding of what a literature review is.
  • Learn how to effectively synthesize literature.
  • Identify key gaps in existing research.
  • Use specific tools to structure your literature review.
  • Ask insightful questions to enhance your reading and writing.

About This Course

Writing a literature review doesn't have to be the hardest part of your thesis or dissertation.

It's time to stop reading and start writing! But how? You know you're supposed to find the "gap" in the literature and synthesize the existing research in your field, but how do you actually do all of that--in writing? This workshop takes an in-depth approach to narrating the relationships, connections, and trends you see in the literature of your field. Learn how to create questions that help you focus your reading and writing. Understand the difference between evaluation and opinion. Get specific tools for organizing your literature review. This engaging one-hour workshop was filmed live and is a great resource for graduate students and faculty alike.

  • Understand the purpose and function of the literature review in academic projects

  • Understand what is meant by "synthesis" of the literature

  • Understand how to explain the "gap in the literature" that justifies your project

Instructor

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Dr. Daveena Tauber

My passion is helping graduate students and faculty use writing to express their scholarly interests. Nearly all scholarly projects are grounded in writing, yet writing is rarely explicitly taught at advanced levels. My personal and professional mission is to make excellent writing instruction and coaching available to graduate student and faculty writers. I consult with individuals and institutions in the...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Gillian
Gillian
5.0
9 months ago

I like the fact it's a recorded lecture to students - very useful ideas when you have no idea where to start. Slides are useful - as are example texts. Easy to listen to - very helpful, thank you.

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ui-avatar of Mohamed Said
Mohamed S.
5.0
1 year ago

Very helpful thanks

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ui-avatar of Minal Mane
Minal M.
5.0
1 year ago

you get a real sense of what literature review should be. she has explained it in a very logical and organised way. hats off to her.keep going. she is the great example of how focus and observation of ones own work can make you master of it and how it can help others to surpass their diffulties of the field. thanks for sharing the knowledge with us.

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ui-avatar of Viva Guynes
Viva G.
3.5
1 year ago

The course was interesting.

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ui-avatar of Hermas Amaewhule
Hermas A.
5.0
2 years ago

Excellent piece of work. Addresses my weak points

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ui-avatar of Dr. Gershom Mawele
Dr. G. M.
3.5
2 years ago

The course is good and well put together, but it would have been better to have a lot of articles as practical examples

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Micah T.
4.0
3 years ago

Good information so far, but the resources did not open when I downloaded them so far

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ui-avatar of Ana Cristina InglĂŞs
Ana C. I.
3.5
3 years ago

I Liked the explanations on how to write the Literarture review. They were clear and to the point. Somehow I expected a bit more on how to structure the review since I already have some work done and want to improve it. I was also looking at identifying the kind of literature review that would best suit my work and the types of litereture review there are and justify why the one I am using is the best for me.

The course presented a broad perspective but gave me a good insight of what to do and what not to do in general terms.

Thank you

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ui-avatar of Wanda Walker
Wanda W.
5.0
3 years ago

Very clear descriptions and examples. I am preparing to start graduate school and this was a great refresher.

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ui-avatar of Mohammad Younis
Mohammad Y.
2.0
3 years ago

If I would suggest a new title for this course, it'd be like this "Great Tips for Writing Lit. Review" Because it doesn't have a step-by-step plan on how to conduct a lit. review, it's not practical but theoritical. This is my opinion.

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