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Why is academic literature and review
important?
• Understand the point of view of a knowledge/topic/subject.
• Understand the experts view on a subject.
• Provide foundation of knowledge on topic.
• Identify areas of prior scholarship to prevent duplication.
• Give credit to other researchers.
• Identify inconstancies: gaps in research, conflicts in previous studies,
open questions left from other research.
How to search academic literature?
• Google Scholar
• Publisher/Journal Database
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