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Veena Bansal
IIT Kanpur
Veena@iitk.ac.in
Scientific community makes its
What is findings public through publishing
Literature
Review At the beginning of a research
project, a researcher has to read the
existing occean of the knowledge
Don't waste time reinventing the wheel
Why do
Repeat work will not earn you credit Literature
Review
Repeat work is not publishable
Do your homework
SCANNING MAKING NOTES STRUCTURING THE WRITING THE BUILDING A
LITERATURE REVIEW LITERATURE REVIEW BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Steps
One of the most intimidating
aspects of a literature review is
encountering the messy nature of
knowledge.
An organization will have to cross many Russom (Russom, 2011) identified lack of
barriers in successfully adopting big data data analytics skills as a barrier. As per the
analytics. Some of the identified barriers findings of Jagadish (Jagadish et al, 2014),
include lack of data analytics skills in some organization don't have enough IT
employees (Russom, 2011), inadequate infrastructure for adopting big data
infrastructure (Jagadish et al. 2014), data analytics. Some organizations have a
related issues (Lavalle et al, 2011), culture that is not supportive of big data
and organizational culture (LaValle et al, adoption (Lavalle et al, 2011).
2011), .
Self Study
Context
Types of
Place a specific project in the big picture. This is Literature
a necessary part of a research paper
Reviews
Historical
Integrative Types of
Summarize what is known at a particular
point in time: Standalone paper or you Literature
may propose an advancement Review
Methodological
Point out how methodologies vary:
Standalone paper or you may propose and
test a new methodology
supporting the identification of a research topic, question
or hypothesis
Context
building an understanding of theoretical concepts and
terminology Literature
Review
facilitating the building of a bibliography or list of the
sources that have been consulted
need to 5. Pages
6. Publisher
Record 7. ISBN number
8. Your own summary of the article
Format of citation: Important
A. Chicago
Google B. Harvard
Scholar C. Vancouver
D. MLA
E. APA
Locate the most recent articles and most cited
articles on a particular topic
Review
Don't include your opinion
Review
Narrow or Broaden
Search
Pay attention to citation- an important indicator
Memorize
Write
Six month of
Read
extensive
reading?
Process
1. Read an article
2. It is an important article
3. No, then don't read it
4. Read the name of the author carefully
5. Sounds familiar
a. Have you read another article by the same author
b. Which article? Can you recall the paper? No, take a quick look
6. Write the summary in your own words- don't cut paste
Process (continued)
7. Relate it to what you have already written
8. Think/reflect- what is important about it
9. What is new in the article
10. Attitude- I need to know the contribution/novelty
11. This will help you identify what is novelty in your research area
12. Create a tea group, discuss
13. Try to explain what you read to someone not in your area
14. Go back to step 1
Objective
T1