1 hr 31 min

A beginner’s guide to literature review writing: Understanding the What, How and Where NCast

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At the instance of my friend Laith Al-Kadhimi, I presented a paper entitled ‘A beginner’s guide to literature review writing: Understanding the What, How and Where’ to postgraduate students at the University of Technology, Iraq-Baghdad via a Google Meet.


During the session, I attempted to provide answers to the following questions:

Understanding the What:


What is a literature review?
What type of literature review should one undertake?
What is the rationale behind conducting a literature review?
What is the primary focus of attention?
What are some practical steps for conducting a literature review?

Understanding the How:


How do I select the right keywords for my research work?
How can I Fastrack my literature review search?
How can I annotate, organise, store, and generate a bibliography for my literature review?
How do I avoid writing a ‘laundry list of previous studies’ since every supervisor “has horror stories of literature reviews which were tediously and irrelevantly descriptive”?

Understanding the Where:


Where could I explore further to improve my literature review writing capabilities?

Here is the link to my presentation https://1drv.ms/p/s!Anh3UYU9XThlyFZEMhWjFl3167-q. Kindly share it with your network; perhaps, it will benefit some of our students.

At the instance of my friend Laith Al-Kadhimi, I presented a paper entitled ‘A beginner’s guide to literature review writing: Understanding the What, How and Where’ to postgraduate students at the University of Technology, Iraq-Baghdad via a Google Meet.


During the session, I attempted to provide answers to the following questions:

Understanding the What:


What is a literature review?
What type of literature review should one undertake?
What is the rationale behind conducting a literature review?
What is the primary focus of attention?
What are some practical steps for conducting a literature review?

Understanding the How:


How do I select the right keywords for my research work?
How can I Fastrack my literature review search?
How can I annotate, organise, store, and generate a bibliography for my literature review?
How do I avoid writing a ‘laundry list of previous studies’ since every supervisor “has horror stories of literature reviews which were tediously and irrelevantly descriptive”?

Understanding the Where:


Where could I explore further to improve my literature review writing capabilities?

Here is the link to my presentation https://1drv.ms/p/s!Anh3UYU9XThlyFZEMhWjFl3167-q. Kindly share it with your network; perhaps, it will benefit some of our students.

1 hr 31 min

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