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Title: Mastering Your Dissertation Literature Review Structure

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It gives the reader an idea of what you have discussed and you also give your final opinion on the
topic and make some recommendations. Having an argument about the literature is vital; the absence
of an argument means that you'll simply be summarising. It is often written as part of a dissertation,
thesis, research paper, or proposal. But there is relatively no continuity among subjects here.
Something to be conducted at the end of your research. The most interesting literature reviews are
often written as arguments (again, as mentioned at the beginning of the page, this is discipline-
specific and doesn’t work for all situations). Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe characteristics,
effectiveness and implementation of different strategies. Look into what turning points and debates
affected the field, and give your opinion about it. Value -- are the author's arguments and conclusions
convincing. Make sure to read the abstract to find out whether an article is relevant to your question.
Therefore, the literature review will discuss only that research which leads directly to your own
project. Consider organization You’ve got a focus, and you’ve stated it clearly and directly. Themes:
what questions or concepts recur across the literature. There are several different kinds of literature
reviews, but any literature review typically includes an extensive literature search. Like any other
academic text, your literature review should have an introduction, a main body, and a conclusion.
Does the research use established frameworks or take an innovative approach. Is contrary data
considered or is certain pertinent information ignored to prove the author's point. Therefore,
organizations should rely on discussions with key stakeholders to distill and adapt quality indicators
to fit their specific needs. Survey questions for patients and (chosen) family members focused on
their satisfaction with the care provided, and aggressive tendencies. Effect of an education program,
Risk Assessment Checklist and Prevention Protocol on Violence against Emergency Department
nurses: a single center before and after study. Authors from our team are degree holders and also
have considerable writing experience. The academic proofreading tool has been trained on 1000s of
academic texts and by native English editors. The analytical features of a literature review might:
Give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old interpretations, Trace the
intellectual progression of the field, including major debates, Depending on the situation, evaluate
the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent or relevant research, or Usually in the
conclusion of a literature review, identify where gaps exist in how a problem has been researched to
date. Moreover, one has to determine how to transfer the findings of these studies to their current
scope of study. So not wanting to bother on the minutae. Thank you. You’re most welcome, Renee.
Try writing a simple statement that lets the reader know what is your main organizing principle.
Writing an impressive literature review requires a person to devote adequate time and resources. The
bibliography or reference section of sources you've already read are also excellent entry points into
your own research. Where will your education and career journey take you? Objectivity -- is the
author's perspective even-handed or prejudicial.
Sometimes a literature review is written as a paper in itself. Purpose: It serves to provide a
comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge within a particular field. A search query
needs to be broad enough to retrieve all relevant studies, but on the other hand, this also means that
a large portion of the search results will be irrelevant. Find out what style guide you are required to
follow (e.g., APA, MLA, ASA) Follow the guidelines to format citations and create a reference list
or bibliography Cite Your Sources This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Read them to get a sense of the types of
themes you might want to look for in your own research or to identify ways to organize your final
review. Social Posts Create on-brand social posts and Articles in minutes. Here, you can add sticky
notes, develop ideas through freehand drawing, and collaborate with your teammates. Frame the
literature review with your research question. Mention inclusion and exclusion of the literature, like
what is included and what is not included in the research. Check the quality of each study that you
include in your review. But hold on! Don’t quickly jump to the conclusion of a Book review.
Literature reviews are most often part of a larger work, like a research article, but may also be
written as their own piece to demonstrate a student’s understanding of a concept. Some useful
databases to search for journals and articles include: Your university’s library catalogue Google
Scholar Project Muse (humanities and social sciences) Medline (life sciences and biomedicine)
EconLit (economics) Inspec (physics, engineering and computer science) You can also use boolean
operators to help narrow down your search. Teams Enable groups of users to work together to
streamline your digital publishing. Were the results effectively interpreted and reported. So whatever
literature one reviews are meant for re-viewing by others too. Our team consists of the best experts
with tremendous academic writing experience. One way to structure your research question is to
break it down into different parts. This may include empirical studies or conceptual papers that
initiated a line of investigation, changed how problems or questions were framed, introduced new
methods or concepts, or engendered important debate ( Cooper, 1988 ). Some important questions to
ask yourself are: What answers does the existing research provide to my own research questions. As a
result: The journal includes numerous references that. He has worked as a teacher, tutor, and
administrator in both public and private schools, and he currently serves as the dean of admissions at
a prestigious university. Does the work ultimately contribute in any significant way to an
understanding of the subject? II. Note that this is not the same as a conceptual framework. A
literature review may be a stand alone work or the introduction to a larger research paper, depending
on the assignment. Research papers need to produce a creative and original idea in their specific
fields of study. Apparently, given the significant value-laden nature of social sciences such as
immigration control, and educational reforms, argumentative literature reviews are essential elements
of the discourse. You may know that an essay has three parts: introduction, main body and
conclusion. Findings from eight rct s involving 6,615 participants were pooled into meta-analyses to
calculate the magnitude of effects that mobile text message reminders have on the rate of attendance
at healthcare appointments compared to no reminders and phone call reminders. Again, you can use
this to make an argument about gaps in the research.
Give your interpretation of how and why certain developments occurred (as mentioned previously,
this may not be appropriate in your discipline — check with a teacher or mentor if you’re unsure).
Literature reviews are most often part of a larger work, like a research article, but may also be
written as their own piece to demonstrate a student's understanding of a concept. A review
organized in this manner would shift between time periods within each section according to the
point made. To identify the most important publications on your topic, take note of recurring
citations. The purpose of this descriptive or mapping review was to characterize publication trends in
the medical informatics literature over a 20-year period (1987 to 2006). Below are the general
guidelines on which this part is usually based. Scribbr slides are free to use, customize, and distribute
for educational purposes. Every new paper poses a different argument, theories, methodologies and
themes fully equipping the researcher with a wide range of choices on what is applicable in his study.
Our Resource List of study skills guides includes sections on Referencing, Dissertation and project
writing and Literature reviews. Importantly, narrative reviews can also be used as educational
articles to bring practitioners up to date with certain topics of issues ( Green et al., 2006 ). Recently,
there have been several efforts to introduce more rigour in narrative reviews that will elucidate
common pitfalls and bring changes into their publication standards. The following sections present
these components in a suggested template for you to follow in the preparation of your research
proposal. You can do this using Google Scholar, your university database, the snowballing technique
and by reviewing other dissertations and theses. Usually, it’s unnecessary, but if an abstract is
mentioned in the requirements, consider adding it to the working plan. You need to be careful about
the literature review paragraph structure. Therefore, this review aims to identify and compile a list of
existing quality indicators that have been utilized to provide insight into WPV within healthcare.
While the findings of this review are promising, further investigation is needed to rigorously evaluate
existing literature to expand the list of quality indicators for WPV. Time constraints of this review
meant that each study was reviewed expeditiously, and quality appraisal of included studies were
limited, increasing the risk of bias and reduced confidence in findings. Check with your professor, or
a subject expert in the field, if you are missing any key works in the field. Three conceptual
approaches to health disparity were given particular attention during the review process: (I) trauma-
informed approach, (II) intersectional identities theory, and (III) minority stress theory. Moreover, it
helps you identify which areas of the field that you chose need some improvement. Many errors are
made in referencing, even by top researchers, and so it is important not to perpetuate an error made
by someone else. Outcome indicators involved the impact of care on the patient, worker, and
population, such as injury and post-incident support. Frame the literature review with your research
question. The conclusion part holds the key findings of the review. Having given a general answer to
how to structure a literature reviewit is worth giving some tips on how you can handle the task on
your own. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living
on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves
valuable. Thank you so much for your guide of video and other instructions for the dissertation
writing. The Editing and proofreading page includes tips on how to do this and strategies for
standing back and thinking about your structure and checking the flow of your argument. You
should keep the following points in mind while writing this section of the review of the literature
and write the points on which you agree and vice versa.
When starting from scratch, reviewing the literature can require a titanic amount of work. The only
downside to this source of information is out-of-date research that might not be relevant in current
research. Once you’re satisfied that you have digested and distilled all the relevant literature in your
mind, it’s time to put pen to paper (or rather, fingers to keyboard). You will often see the terms “the
research,” “the scholarship,” and “the literature” used mostly interchangeably. A mini-review is not
necessarily a minor review: it may well attract more attention from busy readers, although it will
inevitably simplify some issues and leave out some relevant material due to space limitations. Meta-
analyses are regarded as powerful tools for deriving meaningful conclusions. Depending on the
methodology needed to achieve the purpose of the review, all types can be helpful and appropriate
to reach a specific goal (for examples, please see Table 1).These approaches can be qualitative,
quantitative, or have a mixed design depending on the phase of the review. Find Models Use the
exercise of reviewing the literature to examine how authors in your discipline or area of interest have
composed their literature review sections. For example, if you are reviewing literature about women
and religion, key themes can include the role of women in churches and the religious attitude towards
women. However, it’s also essential to remember examples of older studies and keep the balance
between them and the newer research. The MeSH term analysis also suggested a strong
interdisciplinary trend. How does the publication relate to other literature in the field. One of the
challenges of systematic literature searches is that the search strategy should be exhaustive, but at the
same time the number of search hits also needs to be kept within reasonable boundaries. The middle
or main body should: organise the literature according to common themes; provide insight into the
relation between your chosen topic and the wider subject area e.g. between obesity in children and
obesity in general; move from a general, wider view of the literature being reviewed to the specific
focus of your research. Choosing the problem, you are passionate about is the best way to go.
Analysis and interpretation -- discussing the findings and conclusions of pertinent literature. It
provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and
gaps in the existing research. Here is a potential outline for your conclusion: Discuss why the study
should be done. Literature Review Body This is the time to go into detail. Ultimately, the set of
indicators we identified through this review can serve as a foundation for healthcare organizations
looking to manage WPV through a quality improvement approach. It is also helpful to use as a guide
is the searches are not finding any useful results. New York: Longman. Jones, Robert, Patrick
Bizzaro, and Cynthia Selfe. 1997. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing in the Disciplines. If you
know how to write an essay, then you can structure a literature review efficiently without any
barriers. You may create an outline or even use a template to make sure that the structure is flawless.
These articles include content such as a brief synopsis or the key points of the film or programme
plus the critic’s own evaluation. Most students understand the first point but don’t give any thought
to the rest. Qualitative versus quantitative research Empirical versus theoretical scholarship Divide
the research by sociological, historical, or cultural sources Theoretical: In many humanities articles,
the literature review is the foundation for the theoretical framework. This increases the difficulty for
decision-makers to evaluate WPV in healthcare settings and implement interventions that can
produce sustained improvements. It enables provide a clear direction of the research. A
comprehensive search would combine a keyword search and a subject search.

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