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    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide
    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide
    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide
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    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide

    By Grant Andrews

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    A quick and easy guide to writing a literature review for your master's or doctoral dissertation

    This short guide will give you the tools you need write a literature review, no matter what your field of study is. If you're doing your master's or doctoral thesis, you need to present a good, detailed literature review in your final dissertation. Often, this can be confusing, and it's hard to find simple, clear instructions on what should go into your literature review.

    In this short guide, you'll learn how to structure your literature review, how to choose good subheadings, what the logical flow should look like and how much reading you should be doing for your study.

    Whether you're writing a research paper, proposal, or a master's or doctoral thesis, this guide will be useful for making sure that you start your journey of academic writing on the right foot. You'll be able to master this skill in just over 30 minutes. The guide is written by Dr. Grant Andrews, who has been teaching academic writing for years, and who knows the common pitfalls that students experience in academic writing.

    This book is part of the Essay and Thesis Writing Series. You can find out more about the series at www.writeyourthesis.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrant Andrews
    Release dateJul 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370667246
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    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review - Grant Andrews

    Writing Your Dissertation Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Essay and Thesis Writing Series

    Grant Andrews

    Academic Coaching

    www.writeyourthesis.com

    Copyright © 2017 by Grant Andrews

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    Contents

    Chapter 1: Introduction

    Chapter 2: What is a Literature Review?

    Chapter 3: Structure of a Literature Review

    Chapter 4: Logic, Flow and Critical Engagement

    Chapter 5: When Have You Done Enough Reading?

    Things to Remember

    Academic Coaching

    Academic Coaching is run by Dr. Grant Andrews and Malan van der Walt.

    The Academic Coaching team offers free content to help anyone writing a thesis, essay or article. We provide free short books on every topic relating to thesis writing, as well as step-by-step guides on how to plan, research and write your academic piece. If you would like to request that we compile

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