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HOW TO CONDUCT LITERATURE REVIEW FOR PHD ECONOMIC DISSERTATION

Introduction

How to Economic Literature review write: what are

the necessary steps to be kept in mind?Some other miscellaneous points to be remembered

Outline

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

A critical evaluation of the read and gathered resources (literature) regarding the particular subject (economics) and then identifying a gap, if any in the literature gathered earlier is basically what we call a dissertation literature review.

A dissertation literature review can be a basic summarization of important source materials or it can also be a critical assessment of the research materials for conveying a personal opinion on the same.

The basic summarization isn’t authentically a perfect a dissertation literature review since it extends much beyond that.

Introduction

A dissertation literature review is something that might bring a new perspective regarding a classic research paper there might also be a combination of both the old interpretations as well as that of the new.

A literature review might also include outlining of developments in a field, critically made and focused on major debates that are polemical in nature.

Literature reviews also include source assessments for the reader to realize its validity and pertinence to the particular subject that is under research.

There is a major confusion that still prevails on a general basis regarding academic papers and literature review while they are not really the same thing.

Academic papersaim at providing a particular subjectwith new research material while literature reviews form a part of this process.In other words, in academic papers, the basis of it is formed by the literature reviews helping in highlighting any kind of research gap that might have been left unnoticed.

for starting to write a Economic dissertation, we need to have a narrowed down list of resources that we want to used for the review.

We should go through other literature reviews on theeconomic subject with specific topics.As we go through this, we need to choose a topic to be reviewed and with this we simply need to narrow down the list of contents to be used since otherwise subjects become too massive to be gone through thoroughly.

IDENTIFYING SOURCESHow to Economic Literature review write: what are the necessary steps to be kept in mind?

GOING THROUGH THE IDENTIFIED SOURCES

as we finish organizing our sources, we need to start going through them thoroughly one by one.

We can lookout for articles to be used in the dissertationin some of the economics databases, preferably EconLit.

Primarily a skimming should be done on the abstracts, methodologies and references and items relating to our topic should be only used.

After this a Citation Chase should be conducted with related books and topics.

CONSIDERING GAPS IN THE SOURCES

one of the most important things to be done in a economics dissertation literature review is to identify the research gaps in the sources.

Notes should be kept while reading through the sources. Gapidentification is specifically important in case such review forms a part of a research proposal.

Such review shall be shall be deemed to have been designed to fill the identified gaps.

Identification of gaps is also considered as a part of critical analysis of the subject and sources.

STARTING TO WRITE THE REVIEWS

now that we have organized and went through all the resources, we can already start seeing the patterns and are all ready to start writing our review.

We should write our review keeping in mind the audience and that the sources are chronological in order and are as current as possible, author controversies are referred to, it is concise and focused on the thesis statement, sample literature reviews are used as citations and proper paragraphing is maintained.

The implications of the source material should be summarized and added to the conclusion section of the review and then such summary should be linked to the arguments and general research questions.

The gaps found in the literature should be exposed in the conclusion and possible rationale for future research should be suggested.

ADDING CONCLUSION

it is important to be selective regarding the sources used in the review.

Detailed writing is not necessary in every section.Using terms like ‘robust’ ‘ample’ helps in avoiding details regarding a topic, than necessary.

USAGE OF AMPLE EVIDENCE

one of the most important parts of a literature review is the usage of a large number of evidences from various sources to back the used arguments in the review.

Contd...

BEING SELECTIVESome other miscellaneo us points to be remembered

LESSER RELIANCE ON DIRECT QUOTES

quotes in a review should be used as least as possible and only to emphasis a point

PROPER REFERENCING

referencing should properlybe done in each of the projectswith thespecified referencing style.

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