{"id":220,"date":"2015-09-15T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-11-12T05:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:25:02","slug":"week-3-the-literature-review-showing-your-credibility-as-a-writer-and-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-the-literature-review-showing-your-credibility-as-a-writer-and-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Literature Review &#8211; showing your credibility as a writer and researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Image: &#8220;First off, by way of establishing some credibility, I&#8217;d like to note that\u2026&#8221; New Yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.condenaststore.com\/-sp\/First-off-by-way-of-establishing-some-credibility-I-d-like-to-note-that-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8478023_.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cartoon by Donald Reilly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nProducing this chapter for your thesis enables you to gain and demonstrate\u00a0skills in two areas:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. <strong>information seeking<\/strong>: the ability to scan the literature efficiently, using\u00a0manual or computerized methods, to identify a set of useful articles and books<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2. <strong>critical appraisal<\/strong>: the ability to apply principles of analysis to identify\u00a0unbiased and valid studies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Literature Review emphasizes the credibility of the writer in his or her\u00a0field.\u00a0Literature reviews also provide a solid background for a research paper\u2019s\u00a0investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Often it is comes right after the introduction. It position early in the thesis means that it is an opportunity to establish your credibility early on with the reader and examiner. They are likely to be\u00a0fresher and less tired than when they first read your later chapters. Get the literature right and you set a positive\u00a0tone for the rest of the thesis. You want the reader to\u00a0move on to later chapters feeling confidence in you as a scholar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/explorable.com\/what-is-a-literature-review\" target=\"_blank\">For more see<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/explorable.com\/users\/martyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Martyn Shuttleworth\u00a0by following\u00a0this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: &#8220;First off, by way of establishing some credibility, I&#8217;d like to note that\u2026&#8221; New Yorker Cartoon by Donald Reilly Producing this chapter for your thesis enables you to gain and demonstrate\u00a0skills in two areas: 1. information seeking: the ability to scan the literature efficiently, using\u00a0manual or computerized methods, to identify a set of useful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-the-literature-review-showing-your-credibility-as-a-writer-and-researcher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Literature Review &#8211; showing your credibility as a writer and researcher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}