How to Write a Literature Review: 3 Minute Step-by-step Guide | Scribbr 🎓

Don't know how to write a literature review or where to begin? This video will give you a quick run-through of the 5 steps you need to follow when writing a literature review - explained in less than 3 minutes!
Intro - 0:00
1. Search for relevant literature - 0:30
2. Evaluate and select sources - 0:58
3. Identify themes, debates, and gaps - 1:26
4. Outline your literature review's structure - 1:56
5. Write it - 2:34
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dude this is driving me crazy instead of travelling the world and having fun i'm here struggling to write a literature review

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[@mau345]

Tip: Always start with reviews, you can mix up their themes, maybe one review didnt do this but the other did.See whats been strongly estbalished thru time, and check if theyve mentioned controversial parts or gaps of your topic. From this, check recent (past five year-journals about these gaps and where do they stand. Also, literature review is quite overwhelming at first given the large amount of information youre gonna see especially for the younger generation given their access to sci-hub, which can put you in a psychological rut. Not just to comfort you, but also as a professional tip- YOU DONT NEED TO WRITE EVERYTHING YOU KNOW, OR EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TOPIC. Coherence and transition that will support why your doing a specific study is more important, moreover sufficient. If you see an underlying pattern in terms of method or conclusion lets say among 3-5 studies, try to explain this pattern in 1 paragraph. You dont need to write how those authors got the results in detail, unless you see a clash between two papers, then maybe you can re-evaluate their differences in method.

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how'd you do on your lit review?

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This video has superb clarity. But sometimes the simple things become the most overwhelming. It is correct that we can break a literature review down to structural components. But the modern students who I teach (there are 500 on my university of York dissertation module), are faced and burdened with limitless access to knowledge, and the fields of literature become endless. The student has to navigate a constant tension between chaos and order. I find examples help, so students can see the limits and horizons before them. My students asked me to post examples up, so this is what I did on my channel, it was originally intended for my own students, but there are now there for all to see. Good luck everyone - Dr Mark Egan

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four approaches to structure the literature review: 1.) chronological: from older to recent publications 2.) thematic: organized around key themes 3.) methodological: compare research methods used across studies 4.) theoretical: discuss opposing theories or models Introduction Main body that summarizes and synthesizies Conclusion

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Because they don’t teach us this?? I’m in 3rd year and doing this for first time and they didn’t even give us a guide just said “summarise” etc

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Thank you for putting the info in such a short video! I've had research on how to write this thing for 2 full months and here I am a day before the deadline learning more from you than from my teacher..

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Based on my experience and the research tutorials I have been making on my KZbin channel and offline, I can say that students and researchers should have the following knowledge and mindset: 1) Literature reviews should be a fun a process to be well versed in the niche you like to study about. Journal articles are reviewed unlike social media posts that may contain misinformation; 2) There are many sources to learn about different types of literature review: Online the time and willingness are needed; 3) New AI tools are used to make your academic life easy, but students should learn from that. There are other reasons ...

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when i do my literature reviews, it just feels like I'm copying from my source's literature reviews.

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I'm feel so dumb after many levels of finding many literature reviews Can't relate with my research 😭😭

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The literature review has always been a pain in the head. Especially that we are now in a pandemic, students (such as I) have problems in collecting the necessary number of sources. Thanks, Ms! I enjoyed the video. And thank you for being a big help to those who are struggling.

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My tutor said the class last year all failed to write a literature review and mine is due in a little more than 24 hours, glad this help calm down a bit. I have 5 sources to review in 1200 words!

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