
How to Enjoy Writing Your PhD with Dee Reynolds
The PhD Life Raft Podcast
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The Importance of a Good Literature Review
A really good literature review has a certain quality about it, which I would say is a sense of tension and a sense of potential. So you need to show that you've really absorbed and understood what's been said,. synthesizing it in your own way, and also critiquing. You need to show what you think doesn't work and why. Those are all basics of things that are absolutely necessary. What people say really sets the literature review apart and makes it extra special, is taking us beyond your established disciplinary perspective.
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