01-10-2012, 01:05 PM
M04 EKM – Study Skills and Research Methods
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Learning Outcomes of Today
Understand the purpose of a literature review.
Develop an understanding of how a review is done.
Discuss how to present a review and referencing.
Establish what plagiarism is.
Why do a literature review
To find out what has already been done.
It will give you information on methodologies that have been used and how to use them.
Avoids you claiming ideas that others already have had as your own.
You may find a solution to your project already exists or your project lacks feasibility.
What a literature review is NOT
An annotated bibliography (list of books).
List of unconnected critical evaluations of individual documents.
A combination of extracts from documents.
A selection of quotations linked by acceptable phrases in an attempt to tell a story.
A set of arranged abstracts (brief summary of a research article) of relevant items.
Integrating sources into your review
Summarising what an author has said - selecting key points and condensing them within your own argument. Still need to reference!!! Even if summarising a whole book.
Paraphrasing what an author has said – re-writing in your own words, your version should be about the same length as the original but should be referenced.
Quoting what an author has said – using the exact words in quotation marks – should be referenced.
What is referencing?
If you use someone else's work, you must acknowledge your original source or sources.
Referencing means acknowledging your source:
in the body of your work (in-text referencing or citation ) AND
linking your citations to your list of works cited (also reference list or bibliography).