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A Survival Guide for Research ScientistsLiterature Review

A Survival Guide for Research Scientists: Literature Review [Doing a literature review is an integral part of research and yet it can be a daunting process. In this chapter, I will give you practical guidelines on how to conduct an effective literature review. Overall, the process can be divided into five main steps:Come up with a statement of purpose, to establish why you need to do the review in the first place.Come up with key words, so that you can plug these into search engines or scientific databases, to identify relevant papers.Manage your search (through the use of a suitable reference software) and order your papers. The reference software will help you keep track on what literature you have, as well as allow you to cite them with ease when you write papers.Read the papers and extract the information that you want.Adopt an effective way to absorb information from your reading material, such as the use of a spider diagram in order to condense the information. Such a diagram will enable you to see connections between ideas/sub-ideas from different papers more clearly.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Survival Guide for Research ScientistsLiterature Review

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-05434-2
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27 –34
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-05435-9_3
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[Doing a literature review is an integral part of research and yet it can be a daunting process. In this chapter, I will give you practical guidelines on how to conduct an effective literature review. Overall, the process can be divided into five main steps:Come up with a statement of purpose, to establish why you need to do the review in the first place.Come up with key words, so that you can plug these into search engines or scientific databases, to identify relevant papers.Manage your search (through the use of a suitable reference software) and order your papers. The reference software will help you keep track on what literature you have, as well as allow you to cite them with ease when you write papers.Read the papers and extract the information that you want.Adopt an effective way to absorb information from your reading material, such as the use of a spider diagram in order to condense the information. Such a diagram will enable you to see connections between ideas/sub-ideas from different papers more clearly.]

Published: Sep 1, 2019

Keywords: Literature; Statement of purpose; Patents; Reference software; Spider diagram

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