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A literature review is difficult to write because throughout the years of your university you are doing assignments, projects, reports, presentations but none of that involves extensive research and deep critical thinking. When you begin you look at a literature review example or two and start writing away but organization of the information becomes tough and we understand that. This is why we unfold how to write a literature review in just 2 days.
Day 1

Step 1.

Create an outline around the points you will make. This will allow you to organize and systematically arrange your extensive materials in order. Start filling in the details on your outline. This will allow you to keep your focus on your chosen topic and will keep you from straying away.

Step 2.

The review should be started with a thesis statement followed by your introductory paragraph, the main body of your review, which is divided into sub-bodies, and lastly the conclusion. Your review will first bring together the knowledge you have collected in a summary from the existing research carried out, followed by your critical comments and analysis containing your point of view with the faults or gaps overlooked by the past research.

Day 2

Step 3

Interpret and analyze the literature you have found. Your analysis should contain sources to identify strengths and weaknesses and to discover which sources make the most significant contribution to your related field. Evaluate the literature altogether in order to discover what information is relevant to your thesis. At this point you will begin dividing the literature into categories.

Step 4

Write the Literature Review. Your analysis and review will come in handy so do not hesitate in reading through your notes whenever you feel necessary. Conclude. Tie up all the loose ends and reconnect them to the thesis statement you made in the beginning. This will complete the circle, and your literature review is set to go!

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Most students find that their dissertation proposal research gets bounced back time and again as the committee will always see an underlying fault in the proposal. The committee determines if a project is worth taking up by the student and the committee in terms of time and effort and the worth of its possible findings.

We give you 5 small steps into minimizing the risk of getting your dissertation research proposal bounced back
1st small step:

Zero in on a subcategory of your field and find a particular zone of study, or a driving concern for your work. Make it narrow enough to limit your research enough that it is significant to your field and worthy of your work.

2nd small step:

Try writing out 5 different versions of your thesis sentence and use the sentence that is conceptually clear on what you want to write about to people who are not in your field. Once you get it done the rest will flow through.

3rd small step:

Follow your program’s dissertation proposal guidelines, as per your university’s requirement. If you are still confused sketch an outline with your advisor of what should be included in a proposal research to make it pass.

4th small step:

Do not delay starting your research proposal. When you write a sentence or two, they start calling out a life of their own. The words want another question answered, leading to another footnote and parenthetical remark. Brainstorming in writing helps.

5th small step:

Consider your dissertation the start of a life-long project, as being the first idea to an entire frame of research that can be done. That’s why we highly recommend focusing on your research proposal with discipline and on one feature of your key idea so that it is manageable

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