- Engineering: The Literature Review Process
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- 1. What is a Literature Review?
- 2. Precision vs Retrieval
- 3. Equip Your Tool Box
- 4. What to look for
- 5. Where to Look for it
- 6. How to Look for it
- 7. Keeping Current
- 8. Reading Tips
Writing Tips
Further readings.
- 10. Checklist
Your review should consists of 3 sections:
- The Introduction in which you tell the reader what topic you are covering and why.
- Topic or Issue
- Theory
- The Summary in which you draw conclusions about the significant events, discoveries, flaws and work that still needs to be done.
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Get Lit: The Literature Review Candace Schaefer, Associate Director of the University Writing Center at Texas A&M Although the speaker is addressing a class consisting of graduate students from all subject areas, the advice applies to engineering. You can skip the first part of this video but do view these sections:
- 15m 20s What are you looking for when you are reading the literature
- 18m 10s How to organize your review
- 23m 47s: Placing the literature within the scholarly debate
- 29m 30s: Attribution, citation, quoting
- 34m 10s: Connecting ideas
- 38m 30s: Positioning your research in the scholarly debate
The readings and videos listed below also give advice on writing the review.
- The Writer's Handbook: Learn How to Write a Review of the Literature Created by The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
- Literature Reviews The role and structure of a literature review. Strategies for writing a literature Review. From University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering.
- Literature Review UNC Writing Center
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Welcome to the Mechanical Engineering Research Guide
This guide is designed to help you find great research for your report, term paper or thesis. It's easy to find basic info using Google, but to find specific and high-quality technical information you need to use dedicated research tools and databases!
Need help? I am available to help by email, in an online consult appointment, or an in-person appointment (on campus 2-3 days a week) . See my page on accessing research from home using university credentials .
Steps in researching your research paper, report or thesis
The process you follow when researching and writing a paper usually has at least the following steps:
- Choosing a topic - If you can choose a topic, choose one that you're interested in! If you aren't sure, do some preliminary reading and searching using general terms to figure out what you might pick. There's more advice here.
- Choosing where to search - This is key. You should always use several search tools and types of sources for a good paper. If you are starting out and want an overview of a topic, look for Books and other background info here. If you are looking for the newest research on a very specific question, or your professor has told you to use peer-reviewed articles, you can use a Research Article database . And we have Design Codes and Standards (CSA) available here.
- Searching at each place you've chosen - It's important to plan your search strategy, since it can be tricky to find scientific info, especially on a specific topic. See the Books or the Research Article tabs for specific advice, and this guide .
- Reviewing what you find - Are you finding relevant information or do you need to modify your strategy? You can always contact me for advice! It's also important to organize the documents you find to save time later. You can use a citation manager ( Zotero or Mendeley ) to track what you find in your browser.
- Writing and citing - see the page for advice on doing a literature review (or term paper) and citing your sources properly to avoid plagiarism.
Writing a research assignment or report is an iterative process - you don't just proceed linearly from one step to the next. It is normal to go back and refine your topic while you are researching, or to search some more while you are writing!
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Hello and welcome! In this guide, you will find different resources you can use to design an idea for a new invention, research an innovative process, learn about dynamic applications of technologies, or just infuse your Engineering coursework with high quality information.
Also on this guide you will find strategies for choosing a topic, searching for information, and assessing what you find, as well as where to go for writing help once you have conducted some research and are reporting on your efforts.
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Books, journals, kits and DVDs in the USC Library are shelved by subject. Call numbers on books and journals appear most often on the spine or on the front cover if the spine is too narrow.
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- Write down what you already know about the topic and what you need to find out.
- Find dictionaries , encyclopedias for an overview of your topic.
- Find academic books to broaden your knowledge of your topic and to identify keywords.
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What is Literature Review?
Literature review is a "systematic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners."
Why is it important?
- provides a context for the research topic
- identifies major themes and concepts of the research topic
- outlines gaps and flaws in previous research
- enables the researcher to learn from previous theory on the subject
- identifies what has been already covered to prevent duplication
- position the work within the existing literature
- discusses further research questions
Literature review ca be a short introduction to an article, an article by itself, or the first chapter of a thesis or dissertation.
Adapted from:
Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students
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Engineering -- Literature Reviews: Getting Started
- Types of literature review
- Developing a research question
- Why is a literature Review Important?
- Developing your search strategy
- Finding Information
- Citing your sources
Aditi Gupta
What is a Literature Review?
A literature review is a study of existing published information on a specific topic. Literature reviews:
- identify key information relevant to a topic
- assess the status or quality of existing research
- critically examine support for alternative theories or arguments
- evaluate research methods used in previous studies.
A good literature review will consist of a summary of key sources, and is analytical and synthesizes information. Usually a literature review is organized, not however a chronological description of discoveries in your field, and explains how your research will address gaps in existing literature on a particular topic.
Doing a literature review. (2010). In Thomas, D. R., & Hodges, I. D. Designing and managing your research project: Core skills for social and health research (pp. 105-130). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781446289044
Steps involved in taking a literature review
Machi, L. A., & McEvoy, B. T. (2012). The literature review: Six steps to success (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press.
Steps to writing a review
- Steps to writing a literature review This handy Infographic from Emerald publishing provides an overview to the various steps involved in writing a literature review.
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