The surprising key to a great literature review:
Asking the right questions.
5 questions to transform your next literature review:
Asking the right questions.
5 questions to transform your next literature review:
1. What are the unspoken assumptions?
Look for the ideas that are taken for granted.
Every field has its orthodoxies.
Question them.
Challenge the status quo.
Look for the ideas that are taken for granted.
Every field has its orthodoxies.
Question them.
Challenge the status quo.
2. What are the tensions and contradictions?
Identify conflicting study findings.
Investigate why findings conflict.
Explore the nuances.
Opportunity awaits.
Identify conflicting study findings.
Investigate why findings conflict.
Explore the nuances.
Opportunity awaits.
3. What voices are missing?
Seek out marginalized perspectives.
Consider who isn't represented.
Amplify diverse voices.
Focusing only on success neglects lessons from failures.
Seek out marginalized perspectives.
Consider who isn't represented.
Amplify diverse voices.
Focusing only on success neglects lessons from failures.
4. What are the real-world implications?
Consider how the research impacts people's lives.
Move beyond the abstract.
Highlight the stakes.
Understand how it matters to the real world.
Consider how the research impacts people's lives.
Move beyond the abstract.
Highlight the stakes.
Understand how it matters to the real world.
5. What new connections can you make?
Look for patterns across studies.
Draw insights from other fields.
Combine ideas creatively.
Spark innovation.
Look for patterns across studies.
Draw insights from other fields.
Combine ideas creatively.
Spark innovation.
A strong literature review does more than summarize.
It interrogates, illuminates, and generates insight.
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It interrogates, illuminates, and generates insight.
If you enjoyed these:
1. Follow @acagamic to get one post smarter every day.
2. Repost and like my post to help your friends learn, too.
Have a great day.
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