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Research Methods: Doing a literature review

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Doing a literature review: How to find and make sense of published research

Searching in an organised way

How to read and organise information effectively

Telling a story

Why carry out a literature review

Identifying key terms

Selecting relevant literature

Starting to analyse

Further reading

What is a systematic literature review

Electronic searches

Finding information in texts

Structuring your ideas: Creating a literature map

Sources of research reports

Questions to help you identify themes in your literature review

Useful links to help you create a literature map

Solving common problems related to searching for sources

Organising information

Application of ideas: Constructing your own literature map

Examples of databases

Case study: Identifying the 'trouble' in a story

Identifying themes to structure your literature review

How to reference

Writing your literature review

Strength of Evidence

Transferability

Areas for further research

Editor's Comments

Online Communities

Useful links to help you create a literature map

Creating a literature map: UWE

http://ro.uwe.ac.uk/RenderPages/RenderLearningObject.aspx?Context=6&Area=1&Room=2&Constellation=48&LearningObject=263

Using a concept map to organise a literature review using VUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9ht4pYP5c

VUE software download

http://vue.tufts.edu/

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