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Completeness 1
Highly relevant
Completeness 2
Plentiful
Completeness 3
Accurate
Completeness 4
Precise
Completeness 5
Up-to-date
Introduction Should Have:
-What will be found here
-Its scope
-Why its inclusion is necessary as a preface to the discussion of your full research study
Conclusion Should Have
Statement of the strongest messages of the chapter
Implications made clear, particularly on the value of the study as a whole
Clear links to the next chapter
What the reader should think:
On the basis of everything that you have just read there is absolutely no question that the time I have spent researching this topic have been extremely worthwhile dedicated to the pursuit of this fabulous study. And, guess what lucky reader? In the next chapter you will learn all about how I planned and executed my empirical research!”
Reading academic work
Look out for
--Claims/conclusions
--Reasons/interpretations of data that lead to the above
--Evidence on which above is built
--Any qualifications for the claims/conclusions
Anticipate reader’s questions
-"What is your point here?”
-"What makes you think so?”
-“What is your evidence?”
-“So what?”
Consistent use of tenses
Decide a cut-off for what is “current” and what is not
4 Mistakes in Lit Review
Knowing where to start, (e.g. wide then narrow, or narrow then wide?) and what to include

Knowing when to stop literature searching
Knowing when to stop “perfecting” the file

Knowing how far to venture into the literature of associated domains
Lack of analysis
Material is simply summarised

Material has not been fitted to the needs of the study
Over-use of quotations, obviously paraphrased sections of others’ work – student hands over power of authority

Driven by simple author-by-author, format-by-format or chronological journey through publications, rather than a strong line of argument related to the research aims – you should be building an argument, not cataloguing a library

Treatment does not hold together as a “story”
Reads like a set of “facts”
Purpose of chapter unclear in introduction

Value of chapter unclear in conclusion

Work at this level often looks more like a business report: short sections, bulleted lists, structure evident through multiple headings