How To Conduct & Write A Literature Review

Learn The Steps To Success

What you'll learn

You will learn how to conduct and write a literature review. This includes learning how to design a literature review and manage and analyze your data. From there, you will learn how to formulate arguments and write your draft.

Requirements

No prerequisites

Description

In this course, you will learn how to write research questions for a literature review, gather and analyze data, and write up your work. You should end the course with a solid rough draft of your paper. You will go through the entire process step by step, and I'll show you the process I recommend most for getting this work done.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Preliminary Work

Lecture 2 What Is A Literature Review?

Lecture 3 Understanding the Different Types of Literature Reviews

Lecture 4 How To Use Your Interests To Inform Your Literature Review

Section 3: Getting Started With Your Literature Review

Lecture 5 How To Write a Research Question For Your Literature Review

Lecture 6 How To Identify Mentor Texts

Lecture 7 The Best Search Techniques For Your Literature Review

Lecture 8 Doing Your First Sort

Lecture 9 How To Sort and Classify Literature Review Data

Lecture 10 Writing Analytic Memos

Section 4: Data Analysis

Lecture 11 The First Steps In Analysis: Pattern Codes

Lecture 12 Moving From Codes to Themes

Lecture 13 Generating Your Claims

Section 5: Writing The Literature Review

Lecture 14 What Sections Should My Literature Review Have?

Lecture 15 What Order Should I Write In?

Lecture 16 Getting Started with Methods

Lecture 17 How To Structure Your Findings Section

Lecture 18 What Gets Included in Your Findings?

Lecture 19 Writing Your Conclusion

Lecture 20 Writing the Background

Lecture 21 Writing Your Introduction

This course is designed for individuals who are new or have limited experience with conducting and writing a literature review.