RESEARCH WRITING: How to do a Literature Review

Glossary

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Term Definition

academic
accuracy / inaccuracy
adapt
adequate
affect
analyse / analyze
annotate
anticipate
appraisal

bibliographic
blog

citation
coherence
comprehensive
conceptualise
consistent / inconsistent
context
contradict
criteria
concise
critique

database
debate
density
design
dialogue
diverse
draft

evaluate
evidence

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explicit
exposition

factors
features
focus
formulate
framework
function
feedback

genre
grammatical

Harvard style
humanities

initial
interpret
iterative

journal
justification

keywords

lexical
linear
linguistic
literacy
logical

macro / meso / micro

mapping
metaphor
method
motivated

negotiable
network

online
overview

paragraph
paraphrase

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peer
perspective
phenomenon
potential
preview / review
prioritise
proposition
prose

qualitative
quantitative

recall
recurrent
reference
refine
relevance
research
review
rhetorical

scholar
scope
select
sequence
source
stance
story
substantiate
summarise
symbiotic
synopsis
synthesis

template
text
theoretical
thesaurus
tone

undergraduate
unfolding

vague
valid

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version
visualise

wording

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