{"id":240,"date":"2015-09-15T17:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/?p=240"},"modified":"2016-11-12T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:25:10","slug":"week-3-how-recent-should-the-literature-be-it-depends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-how-recent-should-the-literature-be-it-depends\/","title":{"rendered":"How recent should the literature be? It depends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some disciplines require that you use information that is as current as possible.\u00a0In computer science, for instance, an area such as best practice in computer vision is\u00a0constantly changing according to the latest studies.<\/p>\n<p>In this example, information even two years old could be obsolete. The review should therefore be updated regularly, but it&#8217;s still essential to get a draft written early and keep at it, polish your writing technique and use it as a &#8216;think piece&#8217;. But without the personal opinion.\u00a0<span data-dobid=\"hdw\">A think piece is\u00a0<\/span>an article in a newspaper, magazine, or journal presenting personal opinions, analysis, or discussion, rather than bare facts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vk_ans\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"vk_ans\">However, if you are writing a review in the arts, humanities, history, or social\u00a0sciences, a survey of the history of the literature may be what is needed, because what is important is how perspectives have changed through the years\u00a0or within a certain time period. Remember to attend to recent changes in attitude towards historical literature, show the reader that you know the current debate on older texts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some disciplines require that you use information that is as current as possible.\u00a0In computer science, for instance, an area such as best practice in computer vision is\u00a0constantly changing according to the latest studies. In this example, information even two years old could be obsolete. The review should therefore be updated regularly, but it&#8217;s still essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/week-3-how-recent-should-the-literature-be-it-depends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How recent should the literature be? It depends&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuro-memento-mori.com\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}